Thomas S. Monson Quotes

It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

When I wake up, I don't worry about why the mountain is there. I just start climbing.

A lot of people do impulsive things. They just go with their moves. I used to do that. Once I was able to control my mind, I was able to control my actions.

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

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.

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

I can be pretty reactive, and I've learned over time to be less reactive: to stop and think before I make decisions.

I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

People who never get carried away should be.

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.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.