Discipline is remembering what you want.

~David Campbell

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no
to oneself. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human
Existence, 1967

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will
not apply themselves to me. ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1588

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed
them. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No
apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours — it is an
amazing journey — and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day
your life really begins. ~Bob Moawad

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a
bad master. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Discipline weighs ounces, regret weighs tons. ~Author Unknown

Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
~Jim Rohn

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is
the right temptation, put in the right spot. ~Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from
Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person. ~Norman Vincent
Peale

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. ~Lane Olinghouse
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. ~Buddha

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of
Dorian Gray, 1891

You must admit you have self-control before you can use it. ~Carrie Latet

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don’t want to
discourage it completely. ~Franklin P. Jones 

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are
terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. ~Oscar
Wilde

It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. ~Mick Jagger

And so, Reader, (for it is time to have done with guessing) would I bid you conquer in
your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above
all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be
comparatively powerless. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at
Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

I am,
indeed,
a king,
because I know how
to rule myself.
~Pietro Aretino, 1537

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly,
smilingly, nonapologetically — to say "no" to other things. And the way to do that is by
having a bigger "yes" burning inside. The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."
~Stephen Covey

  If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of

  our strength. ~François VI de la Rochefoucault
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. ~Friedrich
Nietzsche

The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer
of inhibition. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Discipline is money in the bank. A real friend, true strength. ~Henry Rollins

Heaven is on the other side of that feeling you get when you’re sitting on the couch and
you get up and make a triple-decker sandwich. It’s on the other side of that, when you
don’t make the sandwich. It’s about sacrifice.... It’s about giving up the things that
basically keep you from feeling. That’s what I believe, anyway. I’m always asking, "What
am I going to give up next?"  Because I want to feel. ~Jim Carrey, from a Michael