Learn Through Quotations

“The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.”

“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. ”

“If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.”

“Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”

“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

“Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like a violin.”

“One ought to hold on to one's heart, for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”

“'It's a question of discipline,' the little prince told me later on. 'When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet.'”

“Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the desire for pleasing methods and are inclined to be satisfied with such results as can be obtained by doing things they like to do. The common denominator of success - the secret of every man who has ever been successful - lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.”

“No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.”

“Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.”

“Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.”

“If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.”

“Willpower is your ability to set a course of action and say, 'Engage!'”

“Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger.”

“Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.”

“The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.”

“When anger rises, think of the consequences.”

“We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mastery over yourself.... It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.”

“Willpower is the strength of mind to carry out one's goals.”

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”

“That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.”

“Character gets you out of bed; commitment moves you to action. Faith, hope, and discipline Enable you to follow through to completion.”

“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.”