David Starr Jordan Quotes

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

Everybody has some kind of addiction. It's about how you get around that addiction. First, you have to break the habit like anything. You have to define the hurdle or the objective.

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

It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.

the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.

It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.

Cultivate will power, that massive creative force that God the creator built into you. Do not let it remain flabby but strengthen it by use and exercise.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

I don't know anyone who couldn't use a little boost in their energy and self-control.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh.

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

I practice martial arts not to win over other people but to win over my own heart.