William Frederick Book Quotes

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

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

I commit to the controllables. That's one of the things I live by.

I don't feel like my life happens to me. I feel like I happen to my life. I feel that I'm in the driver's seat.

I don't need others to push me. I push myself.

I only focus on what I can do.

Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.

I am not driven.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

I only really work when I want to.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.