Discipline
544 quotes: 59 by Keith Craft, 485 from other voices.
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- Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.
- Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
- Standards become habits. Habits become outcomes.
- Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
- Strive for excellence, not perfection.
- Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.
- Success in public comes from determination in private.
- Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
- Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
- Success looks a lot like consistency over a long period of time.
- Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.
- Suffer the pain of discipline now to avoid the pain of regret later.
- Take excellent care of the front end of your day, and the rest of your day will pretty much take care of itself.
- Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop
- Talent and potential means nothing if you can’t consistently do the boring things when you don’t feel like doing them.
- Temperance and labour are the two best physicians of man.
- Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigour in the body.
- Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
- The ability to concentrate is a skill that must be trained.
- The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success.
- The ability to say No, to refrain from going with the crowd, to decline to go down-stream, is more than any other one thing in this life, the mark of a strong character.
- The amateur avoids discomfort. The pro leans in.
- The beauty of discipline is that you don’t rely on motivation.Maxime LagacéCommonly attributed
- The biggest generator of long-term results is learning to do things when you don’t feel like doing them.Shane ParrishCommonly attributed
- The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt till they are too strong to be broken.
- The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
- The courage to take the first step. The discipline to take the next one.
- The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.
- The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.
- The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.
- The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt, till they are too strong to be broken.
- The discipline of desire is the backbone of character.
- The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
- The distance between dreams and reality is called discipline.
- The easy choice in the moment almost always makes the future harder. The hard choice almost always makes the future easier.
- The easy path leads downhill.
- The excesses of our youth are draughts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date.
- The fastest way to success is to replace bad habits with good habits.
- The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
- The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit.