* First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.
Rob Gilbert

* In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.
Harry S. Truman

* It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha

* If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.
William Feather

* No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.
John Sutherland Bodell

* The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Tyron Edwards

* If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.
Critias of Athen

* No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick D.D

* It's not the work that's hard, it's the discipline.
Anonymous

* You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension ard discipline are taken out of your life.
Dr. James G. Bilkey

* The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
Plato

* No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

* What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not do.
Aristotle

* To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate.
Howard W. Hunter

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