George W. Bush Quotes

Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I don't have a lot of discipline.

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

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

Democracy substitutes self-restraint for external restraint. It is more difficult to maintain than to achieve.

The only check upon our own exercise of power is our own sense of self-restraint.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

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

I'd say exercising self-control is very important for a dissolute life.

I commit to the controllables. That's one of the things I live by.

It's really hard to be consistent, and you have to know your body and know yourself.

I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.

I've always been the type to know that if I'm getting off the track, I know, 'OK, it's time to tighten up.' I feel like I can see it before it comes.

Self-management and self-control are the keys to advanced knowledge, and both are difficult to learn without a sense of your own cultural identity.

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

If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.

Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.

I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.