Peter Blair Henry Quotes

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.

The ability to delay gratification has implications not only for a person's life, but also for a community, for a people, for a country.

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

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself.

Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.

If you don't have discipline, you don't have anything

When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.

Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.

The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.

Discipline is doing within, while you do without.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

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

In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.

Be strong-be strong in the discipline of self. How many otherwise good men squander their strength and dissipate their will and literally destroy their lives because they have not the power of self-discipline.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

A person in my position has to restrain himself.

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

If you want to control other people, first control yourself.

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.