Because the struggle continues, I retire frequently to the solitude of my own inner self to recommit to win my battles privately, to get my motives s… - Stephen Covey

President N. Eldon Tanner has said, “Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you don’t want to do it.

Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.

Other parts of the personality approach were clearly manipulative, even deceptive, encouraging people to use techniques to get other people to like them, or to fake interest in the hobbies of others to get out of them what they wanted, or to use the “power look,” or to intimidate their way through life.