Peter Drucker Quotes

If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.

You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.

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.

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

Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.

You have to build systems to protect against your lesser self.

Ask advice of him who governs himself well.

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.

Self-management and self-control are the keys to advanced knowledge, and both are difficult to learn without a sense of your own cultural identity.

When I talk about self-management, self-regulation, self-government, the word I emphasize is self, and my concern is with the reconstruction of the self. Marxists and even many, I think, overly enthusiastic anarchists have neglected that self.

Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself.

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

Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

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

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

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.