Quotes about Self-discipline

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

The only way to get what you ultimately want is to deny yourself short-term pleasures that interfere with your goal.

I like to enforce myself in the run game. It's something I have control over.

Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.

When I go to prayer," confessed an eminent Christian, "I find my heart so loath to go to God, and when it is with Him, so loath to stay." Then he pointed to the need for self-discipline. "When you feel most indisposed to pray, yield not to it," he counseled, "but strive and endeavor to pray, even when you think you cannot.

Lord, help me control my tongue. Help me be careful about what I say. —PSALM 141:3 ICB

You can act your way into feeling long before you can feel your way into action. If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather not.

Think, Act, Talk, and Conduct Yourself Like the Person You Want to Become

President Harry Truman said, "In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves. Self-discipline with all of them came first.

I can control my feelings by controlling my thoughts.