M. Scott Peck Quotes

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Believe in yourself, and find ways to express yourself, and find the discipline to keep growing.

Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.

Make no mistake, I always want to win, but I never fight with an opponent. My fight is within me it is the struggle to be the best I can be at whatever I do.

Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.

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

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.

Before you go out there and try to conquer the universe... get your act together.

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

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

Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

Cultivate will power, that massive creative force that God the creator built into you. Do not let it remain flabby but strengthen it by use and exercise.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

I always want to grow and top myself.

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.

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

Oh, I have very limited will power. I wish I could change that. I am working on it, though. I am too easygoing.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.