Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!
— Zig Ziglar
Reckoning Discipline And Self Control quotations

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless.
Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

Willpower is what separates us from the animals.
It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation.
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing. I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.
Real peace comes only to those who control the body and mind with self-discipline.

You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.
God has equipped you to handle difficult things.
In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!
I knew that, without killing the creative mood, I had to keep the balance between my emotional outburst and the merciless discipline of a super-personal control, thus submitting myself ti the self-imposed law of dance composition

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude - your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.
Sure I am a religious man who is also passionate about conserving the environment. But I am also a CEO, with all the bad habits and attitudes that are natural to the species. . . . I am still naturally self-interested, overconfident, full of pride, and eager to control a meeting as any CEO in America. Every day, I struggle with my ego.

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.
If you don't make a conscious effort to control your focus-and decide in advance which things you're going to focus on-you'll be so pulled by the demands of the world that you will soon find yourself living in reaction rather than living a life plan you've designed for yourself.

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.

Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places.
We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better people. Self-denial and discipline and virtue are all myths invented to control you.
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.
Self-respect is the root of discipline

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.

Our greatest individual challenge in life is self-discipline.
The self-discipline of a healthy diet, daily exercise, controlling our thoughts, selflessly serving others, and living a life of integrity.
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.
The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware.
Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations.