Saint Ignatius Quotes

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

Every temptation that is resisted, every evil thought that is curbed, every desire that is subdued, every bitter word that is withheld, every noble aspiration that is encouraged, every sublime thought that is cultivated, adds to the development of will-force, good character, and attainment of eternal bliss and immortality.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

The way to fame goes through the palaces, the way to happiness does through the markets, the way to virtue goes through the deserts.

I've been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man. But, at the end of the day - and I truly believe this - it is not about achieving great wealth or success. Because they don't bring happiness, ultimately.

Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace.

A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.

Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm-that is true happiness.

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance.

If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.

Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.