Self Discipline Quotes

He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.

~ H.w. Brands

There are no memories which I wanted to blot out of my mind. Always, I have been rather objective in my point of view, able to stand off and observe myself and my surroundings in a rather impersonal fashion. The actual sight of my first casualty was not nearly as bad as I had imagined.

~ James Carl Nelson

I am superior to you only in one point: I'm awake, whereas you are only half awake, or completely asleep sometimes. I call a man awake who knows in his conscious reason his innermost unreasonable force, drives, and weaknesses and knows how to deal with them.

~ Hermann Hesse

Self-respect leads to self-discipline and self-discipline paves a way for respect towards others.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that the want of patience for laborious application and deep research is such a mark of genius as cannot be mistaken: while a real genius, like Sir Isaac Newton, with great modesty says, that the great and only difference between his mind and the minds of others consisted solely in his having more patience.

~ John Todd

Embrace the right values that may enable you achieve self-leadership & self-discipline, and show commitment to these values unconditionally.

~ Assegid Habtewold

In all these assaults on the senses there is a great wisdom — not only about the addictiveness of pleasures but about their ephemerality. The essence of addiction, after all, is that pleasure tends to desperate and leave the mind agitated, hungry for more. The idea that just one more dollar, one more dalliance, one more rung on the ladder will leave us feeling sated reflects a misunderstanding about human nature — a misunderstanding, moreover, that is built into human nature; we are designed to feel that the next great goal will bring bliss, and the bliss is designed to evaporate shortly after we get there. Natural selection has a malicious sense of humor; it leads us along with a series of promises and then keeps saying ‘Just kidding.’ As the Bible puts it, ‘All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.’ Remarkably, we go our whole lives without ever really catching on.The advice of the sages — that we refuse to play this game — is nothing less than an incitement to mutiny, to rebel against our creator. Sensual pleasures are the whip natural selection uses to control us to keep us in the thrall of its warped value system. To cultivate some indifference to them is one plausible route to liberation. While few of us can claim to have traveled far on this route, the proliferation of this scriptural advice suggests it has been followed some distance with some success.

~ Robert Wright

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.

~ Christina Rossetti

Happiness often relies on one character trait: self-discipline.

~ Charles F. Glassman

He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world

~ Thomas Hughes

Salvation is a gift. Godliness is the pursuit.

~ Beth Moore

She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.

~ A.a. Milne

I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

~ Edith Hamilton

Do your best, and your best will be growing better.

~ Emma Willard

Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better.

~ Rebecca Goldstein

There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.

~ Rich Mullins

Be ruthless in one important area: Yourself. Be ruthless about your commitment to Christ. Be ruthless about your intellectual growth. Be ruthless about finishing well. One of the biggest areas we should be ruthless about is our time. How much time do you spend complaining about your problems to people who can't help you solve them? How much time do you talk when you should be doing? When it comes to others, be gracious. But when it comes to you and your time, be ruthless.

~ Phil Cooke

There is no such thing as phD in swag. Only uni. After learning the principles of swag, one must do their own individual trainibg to increase horizons of their 4 elements of swag. Then comes controlling the swag count that's is released from within.

~ Batuhan Ibal

Sleep on it until your thoughts are rational and your tongue is capable of speaking only kindness and truth.

~ Toni Sorenson

Whatever you abuse will return to hunt you. Cultivate the self discipline to use everything within the environment God created them for.

~ Paul Bamikole

What was it St. Augustine said? The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

~ Frank Herbert

He forced himself into good spirits.

~ H.w. Brands

If you feel it right now, on the Internet, you can tell them right now; you don't have to wait for anything.

~ Sherry Turkle

I am told by people all the time that they simply do not have time to read and listen to all the material they have purchased or subscribed to. But time is democratic and just. Everyone has the same amount. When I choose to read with my mid morning coffee break and you choose to blather about trivia with friends, when I choose to study for an hour sitting on my backyard deck at day's end but you choose to watch a TIVO'd American Idol episode, we reveal much. When someone says he does not have the time to apply himself to acquiring the know-how required to create sufficient value for his stated desires, he is a farmer surrounded by ripe fruit and vegetables, whole grains, and a herd of cattle on his own property who dies of starvation, unable to organize his time and discipline himself to eat.

~ Dan S. Kennedy

Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.

~ Ron Brackin

In the heir's world, where everything was available, the unattainable had a wild allure.

~ Geraldine Brooks

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

~ Lou Holtz

He straightened, assuming an odd attitude of dignity – as though it were another mask.

~ Frank Herbert

He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.

~ Jeffrey Toobin

Do first what you don’t want to do most.

~ Clifford Cohen

Self-discipline is the cornerstone of any endeavor.

~ Bohdi Sanders

Just like us, successful people are also given 24 hours each day. The only differences between them and unsuccessful individuals are their winner mindset and self discipline.

~ Kevin J. Donaldson

The weak mind is irritated at a little: the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, though a thousand breakers dash upon it, and cast their pitiful malice in spray upon its summit.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I do like athletes as they have amazing self-discipline.

~ Seal

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

~ Steven Pressfield