Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

The disciplined are free.

I used to think it was good to kind of work within your limitations.

Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variations on a theme of vigilance and self-restraint that I've watched women dance to all my life, that I've danced to myself instinctively and still have to work to resist.

I had the luck of having an obedient body.

My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.

Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.

Discipline is creating the situation.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

An essential part of teaching children to be disciplined and responsible is to have them learn to work.

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

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

I don't think limits.

I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste.

If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.

Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression.

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.

As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.

What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Abstinence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

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