James Cash Penney Quotes

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

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

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.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Freedom is good when the person can use it appropriately. Otherwise it is a disaster.

A well-governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

When I was young, I wasn't disciplined at all.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.

I hate exercising self-control.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.