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What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
Sep 14, 2025
Without discipline, there's no life at all.
Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.
We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.
Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.
Discipline enables you to think first and act second.
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!
Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.
With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.
An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.