Carlos Castaneda Quotes

I'm quite a strong person, and I've become even stronger.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

I never let myself get desperate.

Luke Cage isn't going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, 'This is the world I'm in. These are the circumstances I have.' He's a self-made man. He's trying to continuously build, and that's what's interesting about him. He's a work in progress.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.

I've had to push myself and I've really matured.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.

It seems like the more I punish myself, the better it's been. What it is, I'm relentless and I never give up. I never take the easy way out.

I am not a rodeo clown, like, "Everything is awesome!" I really worked hard on myself and things and struggled to get to a good place, to a better place.

If you will be hard on yourself, life will be easy on you. But if you insist upon being easy on yourself, life is going to be very hard on you.

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

You've always got to have that inner confidence in you. That's where it all starts. You're gong to have good days, you're going to have bad days. You've got to have the same desire and try to get better each day.

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.

We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.

Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.

The only one who can beat me is me.