Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Discipline Quotes

"I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop"

Trisha Goddard, Entertainer

"My expectations of other people, I double them on myself"

James Brown, Musician

"If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world"

Vinoba Bhave, Educator

"You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours"

Blythe Danner, Actress

"I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned"

Trisha Goddard, Entertainer

"The only deadline is the one I give myself"

Mark Thomas, Comedian

"I do not see any beauty in self-restraint"

Mary MacLane, Writer

"Without deadlines and restrictions, I just tend to become preoccupied with other things"

Val Kilmer, Actor

"Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought"

Margaret Oliphant, Novelist

"Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food"

Kate Smith, Musician

"I am harder on myself than anyone else could be"

Kate Smith, Musician

"It really helps you to go through difficult situations by just thinking about it as being a big amount of work which you have to solve how to do. For example, I don't feel very inspired when I act, I just act. That's it"

Isabelle Huppert, Actress

"I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night"

Sammy Hagar, Musician

"I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility"

Don Young, Politician

"I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today"

Pete Townshend, Musician

"I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started"

Dave Grohl, Musician

"Patience is passion tamed"

Lyman Abbott, Author

"I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years"

Samuel L. Jackson, Actor

"I never stood in a public house bar, and alcoholic drink never touched my lips"

James Larkin, Activist

"People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol"

John Mahoney, Actor

"All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap"

Dustin Diamond, Actor

"I love clothes. I can't control myself. I have a huge fetish for shoes and clothes and make-up. I'm the kind of person who doesn't like to wear things over and over again"

Hilary Duff, Actress

"Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul"

Frances E. Willard, Activist

"Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock"

Theodore Parker, Theologian

"Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in"

Theodore Parker, Theologian

"I know the power obedience has of making things easy, which seem impossible"

Saint Teresa, Saint

"Focus is a skill, and like any skill, it can be trained, especially by practicing sustained attention for set bouts of time"

Andrew Huberman, Scientist

"The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time"

Colin Wilson, Writer

"Be disciplined and consistent; results will follow"

William Bonac, Athlete

"I have not had a drink for four years, which for me is a long time"

Kelly McGillis, Actress

"We must not let our passions destroy our dreams"

Thomas S. Monson, Clergyman

"Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word"

Liam Gallagher, Musician

"I know I probably offend some people. I have been talking a little too much, so I'm trying not to talk as much"

David Arquette, Actor

"Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery"

Sara Teasdale, Author

"Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you"

Jack LaLanne, Athlete

"Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself"

Ausonius, Poet

"Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more"

Helena Rubinstein, Businessman

"The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline"

Bum Phillips, Coach

"I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver"

Thomas S. Monson, Clergyman

"So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl"

Carrie Underwood, Musician

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