Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.

When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

Never act in breach of trust ., Live morally, do not aspire for other's Wealth, Women and God ., Consume according to your requirements and contribute the rest to the society Earn wealth through honest and truthful work.

Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?

If you think two steps ahead, you forget what's important in the now.

I consider myself to be a man with my priorities in order.

Success is just around the corner, but I don't want to rush into anything.

I am a responsible person. I plan a lot. I am disciplined.

My mother would say, 'Stay ready so you don't have to get ready.' I spent a lot of my early years preparing for beautiful moments that have unfolded in my life so far.

When you build the house, you don't start with the roof.

If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you.

Your life is too important to give it to distractions.

If you say you don't have time to do it once a day, then you're the one who probably needs it twice a day.

Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance we call morality.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

Postponing doing the really interesting things in life for later, when you don't have the energy.

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

So it's always helped me to have a foundation, an ideal to strive for and goals. It's hard for me to be disciplined and plan things.

Discipline enables you to think first and act second.

What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites?

Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good.

You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.