Quotes About Self-control

Fasting is] a way of making sure we haven't let the rhythms of the everyday put us to sleep, a way to make sure that our habits have not become addictions...

La mente da órdenes al cuerpo, y este obedece de inmediato. La mente se da órdenes a sí misma, y encuentra resistencia.

You want another one? Oh, I don't know: I've already had two whole, entire Fig Newtons. Maybe I could try to muscle one more down but I don't think I - Mmmm, I am stuffed to the wrappers! They're nuts. We got an ER here. We got a three Fig Newton eater. How many did he have? What is he nuts? Doesn't he read?

Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses

The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.

Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.

the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

Remember, bad habits are easy to form, but hard to live with; good habits are hard to form, but easy to live with. Your job is to form good habits and make them your masters.

Your ability to think, plan, and work hard in the short term and to discipline yourself to do what is right and necessary before you do what is fun and easy is the key to creating a wonderful future for yourself.

Discipline yourself to act every minute of the day as if everyone were watching you.

Each act of self-discipline strengthens every other act of self-discipline. Every act of persistence strengthens every other act of persistence. When you discipline yourself to persist, over and over, you like and respect yourself more and more. You become stronger and more confident. Eventually, you become unstoppable.

Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

decision, discipline, and determination.

Bad habits are easy to form, but hard to live with; good habits are hard to form, but easy to live with.

15. Technology is a terrible master: Take back your time from enslaving technological addictions. Learn to often turn devices off and leave them off.

La disciplina efectiva es la voluntad de obligarte a pagar el precio, y hacer lo que sabes que debes hacer, cuando debes hacerlo, te apetezca o no.

Self-discipline can also be defined as self-control. Your ability to control yourself and your actions, control what you say and do, and ensure that your behaviors are consistent with your long-term goals and objectives is the mark of the superior person.

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem: • The more you practice self-mastery and self-control, the more you like and value yourself; • The more you discipline yourself, the greater is your sense of self-respect and personal pride; • The more you practice self-discipline, the better is your self-image. You see yourself and think about yourself in a more positive way. You feel happier and more powerful as a person.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

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.

First, make a decision to develop the habit of task completion. Second, discipline yourself to practice the principles you are about to learn over and over until they become automatic. And third, back everything you do with determination until the habit is locked in and becomes a permanent part of your personality.

La autodisciplina es la clave Elbert Hubbard definía la disciplina como «la capacidad para obligarte a ti mismo a hacer lo que debes hacer, cuando debes hacerlo y tengas o no tengas ganas de hacerlo».

There's only one thing that's strong enough to defeat the tyranny of the moment. Habit.