Marco Pierre White Quotes

Self-control is only courage under another form.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.

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

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.

Behind real freedom, there lies 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.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

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.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

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

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

A person in my position has to restrain himself.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

If you want to control other people, first control yourself.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will to say 'no' to a greater one.

Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.

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

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

The secret is not in what you do to yourself but rather in what you don't do.