Plotinus Quotes

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.

There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that perseveres, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory; and this is the pursuit of virtue.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

The biggest challenge you have is to challenge your own self doubt and your laziness. It is your self doubt and your laziness that defines and limit who you are.

True victory is self-victory; let that day arrive quickly!

Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo

Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing

I can slay a devil when I see one, Steady practice mastery of self so not to be one

Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.

Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.