Stephenie Meyer Quotes

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.

Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!

Self-command is the main elegance.

As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control.

self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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

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

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them

It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives.

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

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

This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.

Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

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