Quotes about Self-discipline
The Hero is not fed on sweets Daily his own heart he eats
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can't control what other people do and how they decide to treat us, but we can control our response to them. Don't let other people's behavior control you. Don't let them steal your joy; remember that your anger won't change them, but prayer can.
- Joyce Meyer
Mary can't control her actions because she doesn't control her thoughts.
- Joyce Meyer
We cannot always control all our circumstances, but we can control ourselves with God's help.
- Joyce Meyer
We should stop asking ourselves how we feel about doing what we know we should do. If we don't stop consulting our feelings, we will not finish many things in life.
- Joyce Meyer
Too often that is our problem. We get ourselves into a mess and then try to get ourselves out by some miraculous method. Then we make another mess and try to do the same thing again. We go from one mess to another, never wanting to take responsibility for our own mistakes. What we need to do is to get some balance and start exercising self-discipline. We cannot walk in stupidity and spend our whole life ignoring the consequences. God has given us wisdom, and He expects us to use it. I
- Joyce Meyer
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of." Bruce Barton said, "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
- Joyce Meyer
We need to be like the ant. We need to be the kind of people who are self-motivated and self-disciplined, those who do what is right because it is right, not because someone may be looking or because someone is making us do it.
- Joyce Meyer
Don't be quick to get angry, because anger is typical of fools" (Ecclesiastes 7:9). But Paul points out it is possible to be angry without sin when he says, "Be angry without sinning" (Ephesians 4:26).
- Darlene Zschech
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
- Johannes Tauler
There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?
- LeBron James