Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes

The more my people work, the less vices they will have

To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

Don't wait for a more convenient day to discipline your mind!

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

I wish I were more disciplined.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do.

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

I've used my time at 'GH' to learn some discipline.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.

It's like a muscle - if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don't keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

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

Being productive at your craft is important. Being productive in your devotion to grow as a human is essential.

I have a talent for coming up with an analogy about martial arts training for everything. It's because training to improve your martial arts skills and training to step into a cage and fight another person teaches you a lot about... everything.

I always try to work on my birthday.