Joyce Meyer Quotes

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

I have high expectations for myself - as an athlete, as a man, as an individual - and wrestling has helped me build a lot of character knowing that I have to remain humble but also fight complacency.

The most valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose upon yourself.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

I have learnt to be even more patient.

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.

I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

I can control what I can control. I just focus on me, and that's it.