Nelsan Ellis Quotes

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

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

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

At our house we have come to conclude that building and strengthening character will require extreme measures and the intentional pursuit of gritty work experiences.

It's like a muscle - if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don't keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.

I have high expectations for myself - as an athlete, as a man, as an individual - and wrestling has helped me build a lot of character knowing that I have to remain humble but also fight complacency.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

You must have the strength to discipline yourselves so that you can accomplish your goals and enhance your natural strengths. Habits of self-discipline formed while you are young will become part of the makeup of your character for the rest of your lives.

I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.

I remember I had to go and ask my mom for groceries sometimes because I wasn't the best person with budgeting. I had to learn the hard way, but you live and learn. It builds character and strength.

Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

I have a talent for coming up with an analogy about martial arts training for everything. It's because training to improve your martial arts skills and training to step into a cage and fight another person teaches you a lot about... everything.

You face distractions, you face adversity in life and you have to be able to handle it, you have to be able to fight through it and become a better man and become a better player because of it.

Being a dancer or athlete of any type teaches you the fundamentals of discipline... and the ability to know you can grow.