Discipline Quote by Roy Baumeister Download Open image “Willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened.” — Roy Baumeister ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discipline Muscles Willpower
Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder,… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder,” — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“Willpower is not a character trait, it’s a confidence game. According to Dr. Russell Kennedy, one of the valued experts who have informed my… — Joe Cross Copy Share Image
“Willpower is like a muscle. The more you train it, the stronger it becomes. Similarly, the less use it gets, the weaker it gets.” — Kerry Gene Copy Share Image
As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives—in the gym, or a money management program—that strength spilled over into what… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Willpower is not some mythical force that we either have or don't have. Willpower is our decision to use higher mind thinking instead of… — A. Curtiss Copy Share Image
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm. — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at school and… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
For most of us... the problem is not a lack of goals but rather too many of them. — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility. — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
What sets human beings apart from animals is not the pursuit of happiness, which occurs all across the natural world, but the pursuit of… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those. — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
Violence appears to be most commonly a result of threatened egotism -- that is, highly favorable views of self that are disputed by some… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
Evil is not likely to result where people firmly believe that ends do not justify the means. — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
Researchers were surprised to find that people with strong self-control spent less time resisting desires than other people did. . . . people with… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing. — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.” “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Proverbs from the East: The wind howls, but the mountain remains still. Even though I make no special attempt to observe the discipline of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion… — Burne Hogarth Copy Share Image
Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for… — Gary Ryan Blair Copy Share Image
