Quotes about Discipline

I strongly encourage you to find a place to think and to discipline yourself to pause and use it, because it has the potential to change your life. It can help you to figure out what's really important and what isn't. As writer and Catholic priest Henri J. M. Nouwen observed, "When you are able to create a lonely place in the middle of your actions and concerns, your successes and failures slowly can lose some of their power over you.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is often painful. But we need to recognize that there are really two kinds of pain when it comes to our daily conduct. There's the pain of self-discipline and the pain of regret. Most people avoid the pain of self-discipline because it's the easy thing to do. What they may not realize is that the pain of self-discipline is momentary but the pay-off is long lasting.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather not.

To do well at a few things, give up many things.

If you make it your discipline to do a little bit of growing every day, in just a few years you will be amazed by your transformation.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda. The only adequate preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.

Cutting corners is a sign of impatience and poor self-discipline. But if you are willing to follow through, you can achieve a breakthrough. That's why Albert Gray says, "The common denominator of success lies in forming the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.

Successful people do the things that unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.

THE PRICE TAG OF LEADERSHIP: SELF-DISCIPLINE

Until my practice period was completed, I deliberately neglected everything else. That program of planned neglect, I believe, accounts for my success.

SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE DO DAILY WHAT UNSUCCESSFUL PEOPLE DO ONLY OCCASIONALLY.

What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.