Self Discipline Quotes

"To think is easy To act is hard But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking" "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over" "Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals and then to work toward them every day will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor." "The way to heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh." "Give yourself something to work toward constantly." "Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power" "A child who has become master of his acts through long and repeated exercises, and who has been encouraged by the pleasant and interesting activities in which he has been engaged, always shows a strong specific character: he is master of himself and knows how to conduct himself in society." "Stoicism is about the domestication of emotions, not their elimination" "Neither family, nor children, nor intercourse with others can be rightly ordered until the passions and desires are brought under subjection." "Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man" "Procrastination is the thief of time" "Not being able to govern events, I govern myself." "Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean" "He who is firm in will molds the world to himself" "The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves " "The first and best victory is to conquer self" "Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - to his personal responsibility." "You fail only if you stop writing." "Confine yourself to the present" "I eat like a peasant, but I fast like an aristocrat."