Quotes about Self-discipline
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
- Vance Havner
Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we don't want to do it.
- Peter Marshall
In a democracy, citizens have to be self-disciplined, or the country goes down, defeated from within by moral rot.
- Peter Marshall
How can I be angry and not sin?
- Peter Scazzero
Severe against others, he was most severe against himself. He resembled a Hebrew prophet He may be called a Christian Elijah.
- Philip Schaff
First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.
- St. Basil
A free man, when he fails, blames nobody.
- Joseph Brodsky
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
- Abraham Lincoln
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
- Stephen Covey
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson