Zig Ziglar Quotes

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Thanks to my upbringing, I lead a disciplined life, which is very important.

If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you.

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.

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

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

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

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.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.