Edward Kitsis Quotes

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

I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day at a time.

I'm just trying to stay within myself every day and keep going.

A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

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.

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.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

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

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

I have to say that the most important thing Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

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.

That is life: you have to deal with things, and it's up to you how you deal with things. That's what makes you mature or not. If you can get the best out of yourself, that's all that matters. If you do that, nobody is arguing.

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

I feel my conditioning is one of my strengths.

Character building is one of my favourite things to do.

To the one, a little natural moderation and quietness of temper may be sufficient to conduct us: but to the other, we can only attain by much discipline and slow advances; and when we think we have made great way, we shall often find reason to confess in the hour of trial, that we had greatly, far too greatly, over-rated our progress.

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

Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.

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

I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted. I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That's all there is to me.