“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”
Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”
Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics
“The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.”
Source: Reaching Your Potential
“Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.”
Source: Insecurity of Freedom
“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...
“It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.”
“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Milton: together with a life of the author
“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.”
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
“With self-discipline most anything is possible.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.”
“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
Source: An Ideal Husband
“About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.”
“The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.”
Source: What It Takes To Be Number #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.”
“Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.”
“Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.”
Source: Guesses at Truth
“We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.”
Source: Guesses at Truth
“An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.”
Source: The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual
“Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.”
“I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.”
“How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.”
Source: Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection
“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.”
“It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
“For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.”
“Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.”
Source: A Confident, Dynamic You: Ten Keys to Moving from I Can't to I Can