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.
- Epictetus
The hardest victory is the victory over self.
- Aristotle
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.
- Donald Whitney
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Must manage your thought life daily and then you can manage your life.
- John Maxwell
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.
- Zig Ziglar
The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.
- Gordon Hinckley
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?
- Robert Wright
man who lives under his own supervision, alone in the whole world
- Soren Kierkegaard
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
- Marcus Aurelius
We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.
- Harry S. Truman
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.
- Joel Osteen