Personal Discipline Quotes

I never had a drink in my life. I don't smoke or anything.

Law is the greatest human invention. All the rest give man mastery over his world, but law gives him mastery over himself.

I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.

Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or any Christian, at a particular time, to abstain from strong drink, either because he is the sort of man who cannot drink at all without drinking too much, or because he wants to give the money to the poor, or because he is with people who are inclined to drunkenness and must not encourage them by drinking himself. But the whole point he is abstaining, for a good reason, from something he does not condemn and which he likes to see other people enjoying.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

I can control how much work I put in for me to be consistent.

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

I overheard one of my friends say, 'If Amari scores, I bet he's real happy and he'll get real excited.' I just so happened to score, and since I heard him say that, I was like, 'Nah, I'm not going to get really excited.' And for some reason, that felt like the right thing to do. I been the same way since.

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

Sometimes I've had to put myself on a diet.

Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.

I had no chance of controlling a ball game until I first controlled myself.

Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.

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

We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.

I don't get to watch a lot of TV, mainly because I'm busy working. And I pretty much try not to watch very much television at all, even American television, until I'm done with a season, because things start to creep into my head otherwise.

The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.

At the end of the day, I have to wash my face. I hate going to bed after a long day not washing my face. It's something I've grown into. When I was younger, I didn't care.

SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.

Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.

If your mind dislike anything obey it

It's easier to sit and watch TV than it is to get up and read a book.