Discipline Quotes

“Better conquest never canst thou make than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts against giddy, loose suggestions.”

“Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.”

“Motivation means we have an idea and we are going to carry through on that idea. We work hard at it, and we are disciplined.”

“Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.”

“Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key.”

“Don't wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it.”

“Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!”

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

“It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.”

“If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.”

“The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.”

“I've been an exercise maniac most of my adult life, running marathons and triathlons, doing that as a regular way of life. I ran eight miles a day, every day for 29 years.”

“The main reason for people's lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what they want right now!”

“Watch your actions, they become your habits.”

“Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!”

“I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.”

“As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.”

“The child who has not been disciplined with love by his little world will be disciplined, generally without love, by the big world.”

“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.”

“Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.”

“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”

“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now”

“We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.”

“It is very hard to enroll people in anything. And there is a very big difference between the words motivate and inspire. Motivation means we have an idea and we are going to carry through on that idea. We work hard at it, and we are disciplined. A highly motivated person takes an idea, goes out there, and won't let anybody interfere with them. Inspiration is exactly the opposite. If motivation is when you get hold of an idea and carry it through to its conclusion, inspiration is the reverse. An idea gets hold of you and carries you where you are intended to go.”

“If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.”