Individual Quote by Jacques Ellul

Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent…

— Maria Montessori

The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.

— Gautama Buddha

He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.

— Thomas Carlyle

“for as they who use no bodily exercises are awkward and unwieldy in the actions of the body, so they who exercise not their…

— Xenophon

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves…

— William Hazlitt

A disciplined person not only knows how to say 'no' to themselves but 'no' to other people when they need to.

— Joyce Meyer

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and…

— Henri Nouwen

The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.

— Samuel Johnson

The beauty of a real persons talent is that it can neither be suppressed nor oppressed, but only caressed or harnessed.

— Anuj Somany