Principles of the Kingdom (God's Success Principles)

4)”Though pleasure is the one and only goal to which incontinence is thought to lead men, she herself cannot bring them to it, whereas nothing produces pleasure so surely as self-control. Incontinence will not let them endure hunger or thirst or desire or lack of sleep, self-control alone causes them to endure the sufferings I have named, and therefore she alone causes them to experience any pleasure worth mentioning in such enjoyments.”

---Xenophon

5)”In reading the lives of great men, I find that the first victory they won was over themselves.  Self –discipline with all of them comes first.”

--Harry S. Truman

6)” Self-discipline is an act of cultivation.   It requires you to connect today’s actions to tomorrow’s results.  There’s a season for sowing and a season for reaping.  Self-discipline helps you know which is which.”

---Gary Ryan Blair

7)”The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.”

----Bum Philips

8)”By constant self-discipline and self-control, you can develop greatness of character.”

---Grenville Kleiser

 9)”We all have dreams.  But, in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort.”

---Jesse Owens

10)”Without self-discipline, success is impossible period.”

   ---Unknown

11)”I don’t like self-discipline, but I like where it will get me.”

    --elev8

 12)”Something in human nature causes to start to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment.  As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.”

   ---Unknown

13)”Let us run with patience the race that is set before us.”

   ---Paul (Hebrews 12:1)

 14) ”I press toward the mark....”

---Paul (Philippians 3:14)

 15)”I run not as uncertainly;  I fight, not as one that beats the air; but I keep under my body and bring it under subjection....”

---Paul (I Cor.9:26-27)