Ivan Turgenev Quotes

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

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.

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

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

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

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

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

The hardest victory is the victory over 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.

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

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

Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.

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.

If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.

Ask advice of him who governs himself well.

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

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

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

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Self-reform is the only kind that works.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.