Alice Dunbar-Nelson Quotes

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it's used.

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

Self-control is true power.

Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.

In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.

Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure.

Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

Discipline is doing within, while you do without.

Be strong-be strong in the discipline of self. How many otherwise good men squander their strength and dissipate their will and literally destroy their lives because they have not the power of self-discipline.

My father taught me that only through self-discipline can you achieve freedom. Pour water in a cup and you can drink; without the cup, the water would splash all over. The cup is discipline.

Self-control is only courage under another form.

The body is only a tool of the mind. What the mind dictates the body will have to obey. Now I do not even think of water. I do not miss it at all.... I see I can do anything.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.