W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

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

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.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

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.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.

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

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.

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

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

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

I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

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

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.

Boot camp was the first time I got a heavy dose of discipline. It was the best thing that ever happened to me.

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.

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.

There is nothing like having to change your physical form to put you in contact with every weak part of yourself, to train yourself in discipline. Put somebody on a treadmill and I'll tell you how good they are at any other thing they do in life.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

Develop discipline of self so that you do not have to decide and re-decide what you will do when you are confronted with the same temptation time and time again. You need only decide some things once.

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

Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of battle.

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.