Albert Camus Quotes

It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.

Habit is the daily battleground of character

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh.

I don't have a lot of discipline.

One of the widest gaps in human experience is the gap between what we say we want to be and our willingness to discipline ourselves to get there.

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

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

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.

You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.

Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

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

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

I will form good habits and become their slaves.

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.

Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit, and that what we call character represents only the degree to which we are successful in this endeavor.

Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience. It is the deliberate cultivation of inner order.

It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.

I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

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.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

I wish I were more disciplined.

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.