Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

So remember, my meaning of discipline is not that of any Ten Commandments...Your discipline has to come from your very heart, it has to be your own-and there is a great difference. When somebody else gives you the discipline, it can never fit you; it will be like wearing somebody else's clothes. Either they will be too loose or too tight, and you will always feel a little bit silly in them.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

They have to have an internal motivation. They have to have an inner conviction.

The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what's really inside, it's just not going to be there.

Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it's used.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

Thanks to my upbringing, I lead a disciplined life, which is very important.

The only pressure, I think, is the pressure I put on myself.

Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

I have seen so much obstructed potential among people who lack personal discipline, who just slough it off, whatever it is, and who think that nothing matters very much. I want my daughter to have what I think of as a capacity for self-discipline. Not the sort of self-discipline that diminishes her own wild passions, but that makes it safer for her to own those wild passions.

A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.

Doing things the way you see it, going by your own heart and soul, that is pure artistic integrity. Whether the hair is six or sixty inches long, the eyes have make-up or not, the riffs are in 'E' or 'F' sharp, the amps are Marshall or not, all those things don't matter if you are doing it for the right reason, which to me means doing it for yourself!!

I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress could justify such an act; I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgments must be based-on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart.

Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.

In your heart you know he's right.