Self-Discipline

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies, for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Some people regard discipline as a chore.  For me, it's a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

When the senses are stalled, when the mind is at rest, when the intellect wavers not-- that, say the wise, is the highest state.  This calm of the senses and the mind has been defined as yoga.  One who attains it is freed from delusion. 

The mind acts like an enemy for those who do not control it.

Never argue, repeat your assertion.

If we can look upon our work not for self-benefit,
but as a means to benefit society,
we will be practicing appreciation and patience in our daily lives.

Pray as if everything depended upon God; work as if everything depended upon you.

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor,
Which rests wholly upon yourself.
So, to praise others for their virtues
can but encourage one's own efforts.

To live is to choose. But to choose, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go, and why you want to get there

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.