Quotes about Self-discipline

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

But even though disciplining yourself is sometimes diffcult and involves struggle, self-discipline is not self-punishment. It is instead an attempt to do what, prompted by the Spirit, you actually want in your heart to do.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

Must manage your thought life daily and then you can manage your life.

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 lbs. I say by choice because you see I have never accidentally eaten anything.

The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.

An interesting question these psychologists tend not to ask is why the muscle metaphor is apt. In other words, why is it that early successes at self-discipline lead to more successes, whereas early lapses lead to more lapses? If self-discipline is really good for the organism, you wouldn't expect natural selection to make it so easy for a few early lapses to destroy self-discipline. Yet there's no denying that a few injections of heroin can be the end of a productive life. Why?

man who lives under his own supervision, alone in the whole world

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

Rule your feelings; don't let them rule you. When you get your mind going in the right direction, filled with thoughts of hope, faith, and victory, you'll drive away the discouragement, the discontentment.