Daniel Goldstein Quotes

My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.

When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.

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

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.

Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.

We deify willpower and self-control - and mock its absence. People who achieve through remarkable willpower are 'strong' and 'heroic.' People who need help or structure are 'weak.' This is crazy - because few of us can accurately gauge or predict our willpower.

I'm here in the present, and I want to make sure I don't stumble on my own feet.

Oh, I have very limited will power. I wish I could change that. I am working on it, though. I am too easygoing.

The main reason for people's lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what they want right now!

Next time I want to do something nice, slap me.

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

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.

Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.

The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.

Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

This life is yours and no one else's, and if you spend your time looking at other people's pages, you'll never get anything done.

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.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.