Quotes about Self-discipline

Not one word to stop me from doing something I shouldn't? 'No. By doing what you shouldn't, you will realize it yourself. As I said in the restaurant, the light in your soul is greater than the darkness. But for this you must go all the way to the end of the game.

Always shun whatever may make you angry.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

Make specific appointments with yourself to work on goals, and treat an appointment with yourself as you'd treat an appointment with anybody else.

O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

The heart spiritually is the will, not the feelings. It is under our control. Feelings are not.

Nothing vague, idle, or purely speculative, is to occupy man in the retreat. He comes to learn to conquer himself; to free himself from evil passions; to reform the disorder, great or little, of his past life, and to regulate it for the future by a plan conformable to the Divine will.

I shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it. I

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.

One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn, is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.