Discipline And Self Control Quotes

Discipline And Self Control Quotes by Katharine Hepburn, Vida Dutton Scudder, Mick Jagger, Stephen Covey, Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain and many others.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
Katharine Hepburn
An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.
Vida Dutton Scudder
It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
Mick Jagger
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.
Stephen Covey
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Mark Twain
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Gautama Buddha
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Ambrose Bierce
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin Franklin
Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.
Augustus William Hare
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you’re fighting temptation.
Tom Wilson
Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless.
Rickson Gracie
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.
Gautama Buddha
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Will Durant
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Epictetus
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
Antonio Porchia
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.
Augustus William Hare