Self Discipline

"Conquer Thyself. Till thou hath done this, thou art but a slave."
Richard F. Burton

"Discipline is learned in the school of adversity."
Mahatma Ghandi

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks."
Phillips Brooks

"Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of their earned consequences."
Robert Louis Stevenson

"No man is free that cannot command himself."
Pythagoras

"The disciplined man masters thoughts by stillness and emotions by calmness."
Lao-Tzu

"He that cannot obey himself will be commanded. This is the nature of all living creatures."
Friedrich Nietzsche


"Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands."
Seneca

"There has never been, and cannot ever be, a good life without self-control."
Leo Tolstoy