Joyce Meyer Quotes

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.

I've become a lot more tolerant; I think before I talk. I can take a lot now. I don't get as angry as I used to. Whenever I do, I channel my anger into my work.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

I know I've had an attitude that can explode, but I'm trying my best to not step out of bounds.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

When you fight against your own weaknesses, there's something embarrassing about it.

The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.

Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.

It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.

I used to be an angry man myself. I’m a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis Gassée)

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

When I was younger, I behaved a bit strangely sometimes - lost my temper, did silly things - but little by little, I've gotten better. As a chef, I think you need to do a lot of work on yourself and your temperament.