Quotes About Discipline

The time is always right to do what is right. – Martin Luther King

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.- Edith Wharton

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. – Buddha

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. – Napoleon Hill

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work 12 hours a day. – Unknown Quote

Nothing is more harmful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army superiority over another. – George Washington

It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don’t pity them, don’t feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead. – Brutus Hamilton

Do not consider painful what is good for you. – Euripedes

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. – Tyron Edwards

He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. – John Milton

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.- Annie Sullivan

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment. – Confucius

The first and the best victory is to conquer self. – Plato

With self-discipline most anything is possible. – Theodore Roosevelt

Many of life’s circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with; and, the laws you choose to obey. – Charles Milhuff

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not do. – Aristotle

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first. – Harry S. Truman Quote

If we don’t discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us. – William Feather

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. – Robert Kennedy

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you. – Rob Gilbert

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories. – Plato

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. – Jim Rohn

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. – Epictetus

Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all… Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot – or if you do not know how to improve on things – then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary. – Bernard M. Baruch Quote

We suffer one of two things. Either the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. You’ve got to choose discipline, versus regret, because discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons. – Jim Rohn, Conversations with Millionaires: What Millionaires Do to Get Rich, That You Never Learned About in School! (Fantastic book!)

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. – Zig Ziglar

Develop your willpower so that you can make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not. – Brian Tracy

He that cannot obey, cannot command. – Benjamin Franklin

Never give in – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – except to convictions of honor and good sense. – Winston Churchill

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence. -Bill Hybels

I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work. – Lee Iacocca

Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them! – Zig Ziglar

Discipline is remembering what you want. – David Campbell

Half of life is luck; the other half is discipline – and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck. – Carl Zuckmyer