Discipline

Wisdom and inspiration about discipline.

49 CURATED QUOTES

The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do.

E.M. Gray

Discipline is remembering what you want.

David Campbell

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

William Arthur Ward

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

George Washington

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

John C. Maxwell

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.

Roy L. Smith

The more disciplined you become, the easier life gets.

Steve Pavlina

The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment.

Justin Langer

If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline.

Lee Kuan Yew

Discipline is simply the art of making a promise to yourself and keeping it.

Anonymous

Self-discipline is the magic power that makes you virtually unstoppable.

Dan Kennedy

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Napoleon Hill

Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.

John Wooden

Mastery of every art is first a matter of discipline.

Miyamoto Musashi

Discipline is not about perfection. It is about consistency.

Anonymous

Discipline is doing what is right instead of what is easy.

Anonymous

I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

Daniel Goldstein

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

Zig Ziglar

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

Jerry West

Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage.

Robin Sharma

The first and best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

Discipline equals freedom. The more discipline you have, the more freedom you have.

Jocko Willink

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Bruce Lee

The pain of discipline weighs ounces; the pain of regret weighs tons.

Jim Rohn

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Marcus Aurelius

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Mike Ditka

Through discipline comes freedom.

Aristotle

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Discipline is what it takes to be a leader.

Jocko Willink

Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses.

Brian Tracy

True discipline is not about punishment. It is about creating conditions for optimal performance.

James Clear

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Jim Rohn

It is discipline that is the path to freedom.

Jocko Willink

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

John C. Maxwell

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in

Leonardo da Vinci

Your level of success is determined by your level of discipline and perseverance.

Anonymous

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn

The secret of discipline is motivation. When a person is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

Alexander Paterson

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

Bum Phillips

The future depends on what you do today.

Mahatma Gandhi

Discipline equals freedom.

Jocko Willink

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

Abraham Lincoln

Discipline is the art of being your own master.

Anonymous

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

Dalai Lama

Discipline is doing what needs to be done, even when you don't want to do it.

Anonymous

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

Katharine Hepburn

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you.

Henry Ward Beecher

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