We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
-Jim Rohn
Quotations
Self - control
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
-Pietro Aretino
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say 'no' to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.'
-Stephen Covey
Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
-Robert Orben
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
-Theodor W. Adorno
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines practiced every day.
-Jim Rohn
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
"The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence"
Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.
-Antonio Porchia
"Voces (Voices)"
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
-Antonio Porchia
"Voces (Voices)"
