Quotes about Discipline

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

I am not a gifted person. I had only three assets: I was keenly interested, I accepted every challenge and every opportunity to learn more, and I had great energy and discipline.

Discipline of mind and body is one of the most difficult things one has to acquire, but in the long run it is a valuable ingredient of education and a tremendous bulwark in time of trouble. Certainly, it is essential in meeting defeats and recovering from disaster. No matter how hard hit you are, you can face what has to be faced if you have learned to master your own fears.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act by a habit.

I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

Allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.

If it be true that the world has lost its respect for authority, it is only because it lost it first in the home. By a peculiar paradox, as the home loses its authority, the authority of the state becomes tyrannical.

Neglect of watching, prayer and mortifications produces an inner weariness about being too close to the Lord.

The fewer sacrifices a man is required to make, the more loath he will be to make those few.