Self Discipline Quotes

Pursue your dreams with great might.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Her genius derives from the fact that she was capable of the deepest feeling but also of the most discerning and disciplined thought.

~ David Brooks

I have noticed that sometimes, our success, promotion and accomplishments become real when we say no to some things and act the right way. The potential that drives you to do that is called self-discipline.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

With self-discipline, self-determination and self-endurance you can achieve the goal.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The proper management of one's feelings clearly lies along a complex (and therefore not simple or easy) balanced middle path, requiring constant judgment and continuing adjustment. Here the owner treats his feelings (slaves) with respect, nurturing them with good food, shelter and medical care, listening and responding to their voices, encouraging them, inquiring as to their health, yet also organizing them, limiting them, deciding clearly between them, redirecting them and teaching them, all the while leaving no doubt as to who is the boss. This is the path of healthy self-discipline.

~ M. Scott Peck

Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.

~ Laura Joh Rowland

When you start loving yourself and respecting your time and energy, things will change. Get to know your worth, and your value will go up.

~ Germany Kent

Your ability to get along with others flows naturally from how well you are getting along with yourself from your own internal peace and harmony which is itself a function of your peace and harmony with God and your family.

~ Stephen Covey

Human being’s possess the cognitive ability to survey and study the biological and cultural constraints that influence us in order to gain an enhanced understanding of who each of us are. Comprehension of what comprises a self allows human beings to monitor and regulate their thoughts and actions and therefore revise and modify their sense of self. How much conscious control we assert over our minds as well as what decisions through default we leave essentially unregulated and in the sole providence of the unconscious mind determines our self-identity. Self-identity in turns affects personal decision-making, which alters our external world. The combined impact of millions of people making conscious choices exerts a profound impact upon reality, the physical world that is constantly in flux.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

With discipline, you are able to maintain a higher tolerance for frustration, obstacles and negative emotions. Self-discipline allows you to obtain better health, better finances and a good work ethic, and it allows you to reach your most difficult goals more efficiently. The more disciplined you become, the more easier life gets, or the higher the degree of discipline, the greater your success.

~ Vishwas Chavan

When we procrastinate, we also put a hold on happiness.

~ Charles F. Glassman

It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.

~ John Howard Griffin

Safe in the sovereignty of the Godhead, we can count on the fact that WE, rather than just our friends, enemies, or circumstances, will be transformed.

~ Brian Eshleman

The flesh resists this daily humiliation, first by a frontal attack, and later by hiding itself under the words of the spirit (i.e. in the name of 'evangelical liberty'). We claim liberty from all legal compulsion, from self-martyrdom and mortification, and play this off against the proper evangelical use of discipline and asceticism; we thus excuse our self-indulgence and irregularity in prayer, in meditation and in our bodily life. But the contrast between our behavior and the word of Jesus is all too painfully evident. We forget that discipleship means estrangement from the world, and we forget the real joy and freedom which are the outcome of a devout rule of life. As soon as a Christian recognizes that he has failed in his service, that his readiness has become feeble, and that he has sinned against another's life and become guilty of another's guilt, that all his joy in God has vanished and that his capacity for prayer has quite gone, it is high time for him to launch an assault upon the flesh, and prepare for better service by fasting and prayer (Luke 2:37; 4:2: Mark 9:29; 1 Cor. 7:5).

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Human mortality linked to the human ability consciously to choose how to act by exhibiting free will, humility, hard work, kindness, and compassion provide exemplary opportunities to learn and develop self-discipline.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Without self-discipline, your streams of grace become a flood of disgrace. Never let indiscipline weigh you down for critics to pick mockeries on.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you manage yourself, you control the flow of your time to the right direction. It takes self-discipline to be at the center of control for your own time.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you can't manage yourself, you can't manage your time. Discipline and self-control are what get you on track to execute your plans by managing your time effectively!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Hard work precedes great success.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process.

~ M. Scott Peck

A life of leisure never satisfies anyone who possesses a lively mind.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Civilization could not exist without tremors of desire and without the counteracting, negation force of disciplined denial. Nor would the gyratory pulsations of a lively civilization exist devoid of the convulsive chemistry of union and repellency. We are born with a desire to be immortal. Cursed with the knowledge that we must die, people live their orthodox lives out by displaying reckless abandon as to the outcome of human life or nervously hounded by utter despondency nipping their heels. How we resolve this decidedly human complex of carrying out our daily lives while burden by our inescapable mortality determines our essential character. The collation of similar values adopted by our community determines who we are as a people.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

If you have control over yourself, you have no desire to control others.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

The anarch's study of the history of the caesars has more of a theoretical significance for him - it offers a sampling of how far rulers can go. In practice, self-discipline is the only kind of rule that suits the anarch. He, too, can kill anyone (this is deeply immured in the crypt of his consciousness) and, above all, extinguish himself if he finds himself inadequate.

~ Ernst Jünger

After self-love the second best gift you could ever give yourself is self-discipline.

~ Tyconis D. Allison Ty

What distinguished him in a moment of crisis was his self-command.

~ T.j. Stiles

Self-discipline is nothing but self-consciousness.

~ Pearl Zhu

Information is like water. It finds its way to all the wrong places.

~ Dexter Hawk

In an age that valued prolonged and detailed exposition, complexity, and repetition it was astonishing that Luther should have instinctively discerned the value of brevity.

~ Andrew Pettegree

The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. – Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

It is foolish to be lavish in words and niggardly in truth.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

May you wait for God’s own fulfilment of His promises.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your character is a blueprint of who you are. People access and determine your pre-qualifications, assents and mode of thinking through the character you cough out.

~ Prince Akwarandu

there was perhaps a strain of humility that was more common then than now, that there was a moral ecology, stretching back centuries but less prominent now, encouraging people to be more skeptical of their desires, more aware of their own weaknesses, more intent on combatting the flaws in their own natures and turning weakness into strength.

~ David Brooks

A veteran artist counsels a less experienced one to start a painting using colors in the middle range so that the painter can move to more extreme colors as the work progresses.

~ David Mccullough

Eisenhower on Patton: Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.

~ Jean Edward Smith

The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the old man in Christ, is that he is more clearly aware than other men of the rebelliousness and perennial pride of the flesh, he is conscious of his sloth and self-indulgence and knows that his arrogance must be eradicated. Hence there is a need for daily self-discipline.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.

~ David Brooks

People with disabilities are sometimes very humble and approachable, if you want a seasoned reputation, then behave like one of the handicaps.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.

~ H. Ross Perot