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“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”
“The freedom to be your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.”
“Discipline brings excellence. Excellence means freedom.”
“The cravings don't get weaker; you just get stronger.”
“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.”
“Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.”
“Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.”
“With faith, discipline, and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.”
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, whether you like it or not.”
“There is no great talent without great will power.”
“Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.”
“No strength within. No respect without.”
“Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.”
“You will never always be motivated, so you must learn to be disciplined.”
“There's only one direction you can coast.”
“I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble.”
“Motivation is crap. Motivation comes and goes. When you're driven, whatever is in front of you will get destroyed.”
“To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.”
“Through discipline comes freedom.”
“Will is character in action.”
“It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”
“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.”
“If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.”
“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”
“One of the most important keys to success is having the discipline to do what you know you should do, even when you don't feel like doing it.”
“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
“With self-discipline most anything is possible.”
“He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.”
“There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.”
“Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.”
“Habit is stronger than reason.”
“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”
“Amateurs hope, professionals work.”
“Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.”
“Confidence comes from discipline and training.”
“A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.”
“Discipline is the tough love we give ourselves before the world gives it to us.”
“The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.”
“Self-command is the main discipline.”
“Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required.”
“Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.”
“A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.”
“You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.”
“The price tag of leadership is self-discipline.”
“Rule your desires lest your desires rule you.”
“We do today what they won't, so tomorrow we can do what they can't.”
“The best way to improve your self-control is to see how and why you lose control.”
“Discipline yourself first or life will do it for you, and you might not like the way life does it.”
“Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.”
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”
“Discipline is the bridge between dreams and reality”
“Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.”
“Humans are creatures of habit. If you quit when things get tough, it gets that much easier to quit the next time. On the other hand, if you force yourself to push through it, the grit begins to grow in you.”
“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
“Suffer the pain of discipline or suffer the pain of regret.”
“Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.”
“A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.”
“Nothing is easy to the unwilling.”
“Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.”
“Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses.”
“The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep?”
“The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.”
“Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.”
“To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.”
“He is most powerful who has power over himself.”
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.”
“Man conquers the world by conquering himself.”
“No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.”
“Saying 'I'll try' really means I'm not really committed.”
“Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.”
“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
“Never act in haste or hurry. Be deliberate.”
“Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.”
“The greatest victory is the victory over oneself.”
“If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.”
“Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.”
“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.”
“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.”
“Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.”
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
“The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term leads to long-term success.”
“If you want to be the best, you have to do things other people aren't willing to do.”
“Without discipline, there's no life at all.”
“The first and best victory is to conquer self.”
“A professional is someone who does his best work even when he doesn't feel like it.”
“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.”
“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.”
“No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, and disciplined.”
“He who lives without discipline, dies without honor.”
“The time you least feel like doing something is the best time to do it.”
“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”
“Don't count on motivation. Count on discipline.”
“Never get bored with the basics.”
“Discipline equals freedom.”
“Anyone who has ever made anything of importance was disciplined.”
“The ultimate discipline is being still.”
“Men's natures are alike. It's their habits that separate them.”
“The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, 'Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,' and that is true. Everything I've accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.”
“Sow a thought, and you reap an act. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.”
“Professionalism is knowing how to do it, when to do it... and doing it.”
“Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.”
“Few ever lived to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.”
“We are what we frequently do.”
“What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.”
“Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.”
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
“Any thought or action that you repeat over and over will eventually become a new habit.”
“Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it's happening.”
“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves.”
“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”
