Quotes about Self-discipline
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
- Epictetus
Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
- Henry Parry Liddon
Will-power, he saw, was not a thing one could suddenly decree oneself to possess. It must be built up imperceptibly and laboriously out of a succession of small efforts to meet definite objects, out of the facing of daily difficulties instead of cleverly eluding them, or shifting their burden on others.
- Edith Wharton
If you are casual about anger and unprepared, you will lose and so will those around you.
- Edward Welch
In golf, you're more competing with yourself.
- Andre Iguodala
First-half-of-life religion is almost always about various types of purity codes or "thou shalt nots" to keep us up, clear, clean, and together, like good Boy and Girl Scouts. A certain kind of "purity" and self-discipline is also "behovely," at least for a while in the first half of life, as the Jewish Torah brilliantly presents.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
That is why the key to long-lasting success is to develop habits — new, positive habits that replace our self-defeating behaviors.
- Rick Warren
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
- Edmund Burke
See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.
- Oswald Chambers
Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
- Stephen Covey
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
- William Temple