Franz Kafka Quotes

It seems like the more I punish myself, the better it's been. What it is, I'm relentless and I never give up. I never take the easy way out.

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

I don't like whining about the challenges I face while I work. I know they are for the better so I can rise stronger and better.

The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.

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

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person. Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless. Should temporary setbacks afflict us, a very significant part of our struggle for self-discipline is the determination and the courage to try again....Eternal life in the kingdom of our Father is your goal, and self-discipline will surely be required if you are to achieve it.

You've always got to have that inner confidence in you. That's where it all starts. You're gong to have good days, you're going to have bad days. You've got to have the same desire and try to get better each day.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

I constantly push my body to meet what my mind wants me to be able to do.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.