Forge Iron Discipline Quotes

“Any thought or action that you repeat over and over will eventually become a new habit.”

“There’s only one direction you can coast.”

“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.”

“A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.”

“We are what we frequently do.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Habits and rituals are what carry us through on the days when we aren’t motivated.”

“It’s what you do when you aren’t motivated that determines success or failure.”

“Every single successful person has had to face moments when there was no reason or logic that indicated they should continue, zero motivation and inspiration. Still, they showed up and put one foot in front of the other anyway.”

“We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.”

“The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.”

“Reduce daily decisions to routine.”

“Your willingness to discipline one part of your life creates freedom in another.”

“You are not just the average of the five people around you. You’re the average of the five habits you do.”

“By consistently doing things you may not want to do, you create an environment in your head that says you’re okay doing hard things. You’re training yourself to go through obstacles rather than let them deter you.”

“Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any ‘if’ or ‘but’.”

“Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.”

“We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.”

“The level of effort you tolerate from yourself will define your life.”

“No one can give you heart. No one can give you discipline. No one can make you unstoppable. Those are things you must decide for yourself. But make no mistake, it’s a decision. It’s not a genetic gift. It’s a mindset.”

“Addiction is when you can’t get enough of what you don’t want any more.”

“You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.”

“Whether you like it or not, everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you’ve made in the past.”

“If you go through life being casual, you will end up a casualty.”

“Do what you need to do, so that you can do what you want to do. Success and convenience do not go together.”

“Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.”

“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”

“You don’t have to build the habits everyone tells you to build. Choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is most popular.”

“We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits. With the same habits, you’ll end up with the same results. But with better habits, anything is possible.”

“Time magnifies the margin between success and failure. It will multiply whatever you feed it. Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.”

“Incentives can start a habit. Identity sustains a habit.”

“Habits do not restrict freedom. They create it. In fact, the people who don’t have their habits handled are often the ones with the least amount of freedom.”

“The goal is not to read a book, the goal is to become a reader. The goal is not to run a marathon, the goal is to become a runner. The goal is not to learn an instrument, the goal is to become a musician.”

“The people with the best self-control are typically the ones who need to use it the least.”

“If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world.”

“Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you’d sink into chaos.”

“A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.”

“All companies have a culture, some companies have discipline, but few companies have a culture of discipline. When you have disciplined people, you don’t need hierarchy. When you have disciplined thought, you don’t need bureaucracy. When you have disciplined action, you don’t need excessive controls. When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great performance.”

“When the Superior Man eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in his work and careful in speech. He avails himself to people of the Tao and thereby corrects himself. This is the kind of person of whom you can say, ‘he loves learning.’”

“The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions.”

“Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.”

“Adolescents who never learn to control their consciousness grow up to be adults without a ‘discipline.’ They lack the complex skills that will help them survive in a competitive, information-intensive environment. And what is even more important, they never learn how to enjoy living.”