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Sunday Adelaja in his book ''[[A Man or a Mouse by Sunday Adelaja|A Man or a Mouse]]'' writes:
 
Sunday Adelaja in his book ''[[A Man or a Mouse by Sunday Adelaja|A Man or a Mouse]]'' writes:

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Below are some quotes on self-control and willpower:

Bible verses on self-control

The Bible is the best-selling book of all time.[1]

Between 5 to 7 billion Bibles have been published.

See also: Bible

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Quotes on self-control

Calvin Coolidge in 1919
  • "By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character." - Grenville Kleiser
  • "I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control." - Tim Ferriss
  • "Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in the door and on the job, and lead to productive lives." - James Heckman
  • "Every successful person has a fair amount of self-control - it's just the nature of success." - Laird Hamilton
  • "Self-management and self-control are the keys to advanced knowledge, and both are difficult to learn without a sense of your own cultural identity." - KRS-One
  • "Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body." - Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • "Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill." - Travis Bradberry
  • “For whatever goal you want to achieve, there is discomfort along that path. Self-discipline drives you through this discomfort and allows you to achieve and attain. It’s an essential component of mastery, and nothing great was ever accomplished without it.” - Peter Hollins
  • "Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not." -Elbert Hubbard.
  • “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” – Jim Rohn
  • “The fact is, self-discipline is only punishment when imposed by someone else. When you discipline yourself, it’s not punishment but empowerment.” - Les Brown
  • "Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.' - Calvin Coolidge
  • "Since self-control is vital to reaching long-term goals, befriending people with willpower could be the secret to success. Whether you're tempted to skip that workout at the gym, or you're considering blowing this month's budget, spending time with a disciplined friend could boost your motivation to maintain healthy habits." - Amy Morin
  • “Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and permits truth, virtue, and integrity to rule our minds instead.” - John MacArthur Jr.
  • “Through self-discipline comes freedom.” – Aristotle
Abraham Lincoln in the late 1850s, about to debate his rival Stephen A. Douglas.
  • “True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.” - Mortimer J. Adler
  • “The foundation of a strong self comes from small acts of daily discipline.” - Ophelia Filek
  • "You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself…the height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment…and this is the law of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others." – Leonardo da Vinci
  • “Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.” - Abraham Lincoln
  • “Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you cannot control what you do. Simply, self-discipline allows you to think first and act afterwards.” – Napoleon Hill
  • “Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It requires you to connect today’s actions to tomorrow’s results.” – Gary Ryan
  • “Discipline is inherently uncomfortable, so strengthening your relationship with discomfort is one of the best ways to improve self-discipline. Everybody has different fears, insecurities, and discomforts. But a lot of people go through their life avoiding those things, and thus limiting their own potential. If you want to maximize all the positive aspects of your life, you can start with facing your fears and choosing to be uncomfortable.” - Peter Hollins
  • “It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.” - Edmund Burke
  • “Without goals and aspirations, discipline is going to feel like pointless suffering. Therefore, our lapses in discipline often come when we aren’t connected to our goals." - Peter Hollins
  • “I think self-discipline is something, it’s like a muscle. The more you exercise it the stronger its gets.” – Daniel Goldstein
  • “Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.” - Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • “One strategy to help you master delaying gratification is to think about your future self more—the one who will be rewarded for your temporary suffering. Integrate your view of your future self as one and the same with the you that is acting now. When you’re emotionally one with your future self, it becomes easier for you to act for the good of your future self instead of just following the whims of your present self.” - Peter Hollins
  • “You must develop the discipline to think right. It will give you the discipline to act right.” – Iyanla Vanzant
  • “Each act of self-discipline strengthens every other act of self-discipline. Every act of persistence strengthens every other act of persistence. When you discipline yourself to persist, over and over, you like and respect yourself more and more. You become stronger and more confident. Eventually, you become unstoppable.” - Brian Tracy
  • “When you’re making decisions, which time frame do you tend to focus on? Do you find yourself thinking only of the pleasures a decision will afford you in the present, or of the consequences an action will have on your future self?” - Peter Hollins
  • “Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievement gained slowly over time.” – John Maxwell
  • “Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process." - M. Scott Peck.
  • “We do not have to be smarter than the rest, we have to be more disciplined than the rest.” – Warren Buffet
  • “You must be disciplined in thought, word, and deed. Consciously train yourself to do those things that are good for you.” – Iyanla Vanzant
  • “We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret and disappointment.” – Jim Rohn
  • "Self-discipline is self-caring.” - M. Scott Peck
  • “You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.” - Brian Tracy
  • “One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline – and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck.” - Carl Zuckmeyer
  • “Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive, but mutually dependent because without discipline we would sink into chaos.” - Paulo Coelho
  • “Never believe a promise from a man or woman who has no discipline. They have broken a thousand promises to themselves, and they break their promise for you.” – Matthew Kelly

Willpower quotes

Erasmus by Hans Holbein the Younger
  • "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi
  • "Research shows that willpower is more important than IQ. That’s why the point isn’t to become smarter, but to become more self-disciplined." - Adam Kirk Smith
  • “There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.” Honore de Balzac
  • “Ahead of us are not reasons and arguments, But will and desire.” - Paulo Coelho
  • "Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile." - Brian Tracy
  • "The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win." - Coach Bobby Knight
  • Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. - Winston Churchill
  • "With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower." - Johnny Weissmuller
  • "I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself." – Pietro Aretino
  • "Will is character in action." - William McDougall
  • "I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work." - Pearl S. Buck
  • "Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much." – John Ortberg on temptation
  • "The will is the keystone in the arch of human achievement. It is the culmination of our complex mental faculties. It is the power that rules minds, men and nations." - Thomas Parker Boyd
  • "What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that’s another matter." - Business consultant Peter F. Drucker
  • "Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.' – Dan Millman
  • "Willpower gets you started. Habits get you results." - Priit Kalas
  • "This in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners." – William Shakespeare
  • "Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible." – C.S. Lewis
Dr. Sunday Adelaja
  • "Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli
  • "Most of life’s actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower." - Robert McKee
  • “If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.” - Joss Whedon

Sunday Adelaja in his book A Man or a Mouse writes:

“ The meaning of the word "will" according to Ephraim:
  • "One of the basic abilities of a person, consisting in the conscious regulation of one's behavior, the management of one's actions.
  • Conscious desire to fulfill or achieve the goal; tenacity, perseverance

"Will" in the Encyclopedic Dictionary:

  • Will - ability to choose activities and internal efforts necessary for its implementation.
  • A specific act that allows a person to resist the power of spontaneous wants and impulsive desires: for him, it is not the case of "I want" that is of priority, but rather "this is necessary," "It’s a must," creates the awareness of the characteristic value of the goal of his action.
  • Will includes decision making, often accompanied by a struggle of motives and its implementation.[2]
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See also

Sins related to a lack of self-control

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Notes

  1. ↑ The Bible is the best selling book of all time, Guinness Book of Word Record
  2. ↑ A Man or a Mouse by Sunday Adelaja, Chapter 2, Golden Truth Publishing. 2018. Kindle Edition.
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