#Discipline Quotes

“For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.”

“I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.”

“Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.”

“There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.”

“I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.”

“Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.”

“Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.”

“Self-command is the main elegance.”

“Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.”

“The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.”

“Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.”

“Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker”

“Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.”

“Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.”

“Unpunctuality is a vile habit.”

“Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.”

“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.”

“Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.”

“The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.”

“Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.”

“Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.”

“Fasting is the first principle of medicine.”

“There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.”

“This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.”

“And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.”

“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.”