Quotes about Discipline
My parents taught me to react quickly when temptation comes and to say 'No!' instantly and emphatically. I recommend that same counsel to you. Avoid temptations.
- Joseph Wirthlin
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
- Lou Holtz
football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi Jr.
Stated to a running back after an overly exuberant display of celebration: Next time you make a touchdown act like you've been there before.
- Vince Lombardi
How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?
- Leonard Ravenhill
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
- James Allen
As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Training for strength and flexibility is a must. You must use it to support your techniques. Techniques alone are no good if you don't support them with strength and flexibility.
- Bruce Lee
Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.
- Cicero
The way strength and conditioning has helped me now is that I make it a point to go to the gym everyday if I can.
- Bo Jackson
Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.
- Confucius
Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
- William James