1. The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you don’t, life controls you. — Anthony Robbins
2. We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret and disappointment. – Jim Rohn
3. We do today what they won’t, so tomorrow we can accomplish what they can’t. – Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson
4. “There never has been, and cannot be, a good life without self-control.” – Count Leo Tolstoy
4. Self-control is a key factor in achieving success. We can’t control everything in life, but we can definitely control ourselves.– Jan McKingley Hilado
5. Success doesn’t just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.– John C. Maxwell
6. It doesn’t matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.— Harvey Mackay
7. You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.– Marcus Aurelius
8. The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.— Michael E. Gerber
9. Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock. — Gandhi
10. Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. – Alexander Graham Bell
11. He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls. — Anonymous
12. In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves. — Harry S. Truman
13. Great leaders always have self-discipline -without exception.– John C. Maxwell
14. “If you lose self-control everything will fall.” — John Wooden
15. “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.” — Aristotle
16. “We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.” — Edward Gibbon
17. The best fighter is never angry.” — Lao Tzu
18. “The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and objectionable.” – Plato
19. “The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you don’t, life controls you.” – Anthony Robbins
20. “Those who can command themselves, command others.” – Hazlitt
21. “He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
22. “In the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of you.” – Deepak Chopra
23. “When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.” – W. Clement Stone
Thanks for posting these, a nice break from all the doom & gloom re: COVID-19. I particularly resonate with #4 and whole-heartedly believe the only thing we can control is our relationship/reaction to events and we create our own realities.