Discipline Quotes

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."

Thomas Henry Huxley

"Success is actually a short race – a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over."

Gary Keller

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

Stephen King

"I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp."

W. Somerset Maugham

"Inspiration is for amateurs – the rest of us just show up and get to work."

Chuck Close

"Lost time is never found again."

"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day."

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

"Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen."

Wayne Huizenga

"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work."

David Rockefeller

"Today is victory over yourself of yesterday."

Miyamoto Musashi

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort."

Jesse Owens

"Discipline yourself so others don't have to."

"Only the disciplined ones in life are free."

Eliud Kipchoge

"Discipline is doing what you are supposed to do in the best possible manner at the time you are supposed to do it."

Mike Krzyzewski

"In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on."

Henri Nouwen

"Your billion-dollar ideas show up when you have the business and personal discipline to make space for your creative mind to flourish."

Robin S. Sharma

"Habit is ten times nature."

Duke of Wellington

"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."

Abraham Joshua Heschel

"Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity."

"Discipline is helping a child solve a problem. Punishment is making a child suffer for having a problem."

L. R. Knost

"Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion."

Terence

"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it."

Richard Whately

"Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve."