Self-Leadership
545 quotes: 55 by Keith Craft, 490 from other voices.
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- As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.
- As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.
- At first we can't keep the evil thoughts from coming, but we can keep from entertaining them.
- Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.
- Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
- Be forgiving with your past self. Be strict with your present self. Be flexible with your future self.
- Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself.
- Be loyal to your future, not your past.
- Be not hurried away by excitement, but say, "Semblance, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.
- Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
- Be your money's master, not its slave.
- Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.
- Believe in yourself when nobody else does.
- Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.
- Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
- Choose rather to punish your appetites than to be punished by them.
- Circumstances? I make circumstances.
- Commend me rather to him who goes wrong in a way that is his own, than to him who walks correctly in a way that is not.
- Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
- Comparing yourself to others is a guaranteed prescription for misery.
- Conduct yourself so as to deserve the best that can come to you, and the consciousness of your own proper behaviour will keep you in spirits if it should not come.
- Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have trying to change others.
- Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.
- Control your thought and you will control circumstances.
- Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.
- Courage is the quality it takes to look at yourself with candor, your adversaries with kindness and your setbacks with serenity.
- Discipline comes through self-control. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. You may see at one and the same time both your best friend and your greatest enemy, by stepping in front of a mirror.
- Discipline is a choice. It’s simply consistently choosing the hard right over the easy wrong.
- Discipline yourself so no one else has to.
- Do something that doesn’t feel good now to feel good later.
- Do something today that your future self will thank you for.
- Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.
- Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Mentors won’t make you rich. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself.
- Don’t be overheard complaining… Not even to yourself.
- Don’t compare yourself to others. That’s when you start to lose confidence in yourself.
- Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.
- Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on discipline.
- Don’t let other people decide who you are.
- Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be.
- Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.