Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Discipline Quotes

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"Well, I quit smoking three weeks ago and I had a hard day today not smoking"

Eric Roberts, Actor

"I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do"

George J. Mitchell, Politician

"You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters"

Courtney Thorne Smith, Actress

"I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow"

William Kempe, Actor

"Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution"

Muhammed Iqbal, Poet

"That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned"

Julius Erving, Athlete

"I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it"

Neil Cavuto, Journalist

"I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be"

Chrissie Hynde, Musician

"Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it straight"

Bobby Vinton, Musician

"I am, indeed, a king because I know how to rule myself"

Pietro Aretino, Poet

"The worst education which teaches self-denial is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that"

John Sterling, Author

John Sterling

"I don't drink, I don't smoke and I don't party"

Stephanie Mills, Musician

"Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory"

Frederick William Faber, Theologian

"It's one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"Give thy thoughts no tongue"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"We gain the strength of the temptation we resist"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is, after all, the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Man seems to be capable of great virtues, but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer, but not of keeping his temper"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself!"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

Sydney J. Harris

"Rebellions of the belly are the worst"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

Thomas Edison

"Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

Jim Rohn

"For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

Jim Rohn

"Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?"

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

Robert Browning Hamilton

"He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses, though he be not drunk"

Epictetus, Philosopher

Epictetus

"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire"

Epictetus, Philosopher

Epictetus

"Control thy passions, lest they take vengence on thee"

Epictetus, Philosopher

Epictetus

"Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

Marcus Aurelius

"In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing, but somehow we cannot start"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not"

William James, Philosopher

William James

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