Discipline And Self Control Quotes - Page 2

• About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

  Tom Wilson

  Love, Fun, Sunset

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• Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.

  Charlotte Dacre

  Motivational, Temptation, Mind

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• A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

  C. S. Lewis

  Motivational, Strong, Lying

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• I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

  Antonio Porchia

  Motivational, Masters, Will Power

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

  Franz Kafka

  Spiritual, Mean, Self

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Motivational, Temptation, Self Control

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• For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

  Plato

  Plato, Men, Discipline

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• Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

  Augustus William Hare

  Motivational, Self Control, Might

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right.

  Alan Keyes

  Government, Self, Discipline

  Alan Keyes' Speech at the California Republican Party Convention in Sacramento, California, www.keyesarchives.com. February 27, 1999.

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• Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Expectations, Temptation, Able

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.679, 谷月社

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• All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Men, Broken

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Motivational, Good Morning, Vices

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Seamus Perry (2002). “Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection”, p.71, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Discipline, Over You, Self Control

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• Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

  Robert Orben

  Motivational, Life And Love, People

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• Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Integrity, Law Of Attraction

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.679, 谷月社

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• It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

  Mick Jagger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Letting Go

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Struggle, Buddhism

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• What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Happiness, Lying

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• With self-discipline most anything is possible.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Self

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

  Bum Phillips

  Life, Motivational, Volleyball

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

  Gautama Buddha

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

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• Rule your mind or it will rule you.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.120, Lulu.com

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