Tacitus Quotes

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

Self regulation is important but it is not enough.

A well-governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

When I was young, I wasn't disciplined at all.

I'm an in-control person.

I do not want to gain a reputation for lacking discipline because I always look to play within the laws.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad, or those which tend to evil till they become your masters, and neglect the good till they dwindle away, you have only yourself to blame.

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

I have to reign myself in a lot.

An essential part of teaching children to be disciplined and responsible is to have them learn to work.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

I need to rein myself in sometimes.

Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.