Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

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.

A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.

Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.

For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.

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

What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.

Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.

To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

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

'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

Discipline is doing within, while you do without.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

The most valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose upon yourself.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

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

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.