Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Discipline is doing what you really don't want to do so you can do what you really want to do.

For the higher interest of the nation, you've got to be capable of hurting yourself.

Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.

Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye may not offer of that which is another man's, or that which ye are entrusted withal, and not your own.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

The people who founded America, who fought for its freedom, did not look to anyone else to get them out of their troubles. They took matters into their own hands and answered only to God and their peers. In today's world, sacrifice and hardship are not in the everyday language, and instant gratification is foremost.

Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. To many people, being nice in order to be liked is more important. There's equal merit in that, but you must not confuse being good with being liked.

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.

We have to sacrifice before we can prosper.

Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

I'm used to working hard and making sacrifices.

I've had to make lots of sacrifices, particularly off the pitch.

There are things that are more important than my personal happiness.

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.

Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.

Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.