Discipline
544 quotes: 59 by Keith Craft, 485 from other voices.
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- The habit of happy thought would transform the commonest life into harmony and beauty.
- The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.
- The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.
- The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
- The harder I practice, the luckier I get.
- The larger the income, the harder it is to live within it.
- The less of routine, the more of life.
- The life you want is hidden inside the discipline you resist.
- The life you want starts with the habits you repeat when no one’s watching.
- The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.
- The man who has not learned to say “No,” will be a weak if not a wretched man as long as he lives.
- The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.
- The middle gear of any man is self-discipline.
- The mind has a certain vegetative power, which cannot be wholly idle. If it is not laid out and cultivated into a beautiful garden, it will of itself shoot up in weeds or flowers of a wild growth.
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
- The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
- The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
- The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation.
- The only way to achieve greatness in life is to have patience, consistency, and discipline.
- The only way to be obedient to the heavenly vision is to give our utmost for God’s highest, and this can only be done by continually and resolutely recalling the vision.
- The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
- The people who did the hard, unpopular, disciplined things during the good times are the ones set up to thrive during the bad times.
- The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the conquering that gives a hero his title to renown.
- The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
- The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
- The quality of your life depends on the quality of your habits.
- The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit
- The real secret of world-class performers isn’t the daily routines that they develop, but that they stick to them. That they show up, even when they don’t feel like it.
- The real work begins when the excitement to work ends.
- The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
- The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.
- The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.
- The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision.
- The smallest of disciplines, practiced every day, start an incredible process that can change our lives forever.
- The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
- The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
- The time you least feel like doing something is the best time to do it.
- The very desire to find shortcuts makes you eminently unsuited for any kind of mastery.
- The will, the determination to do a thing, is the same as the affirmation of the ability to do it.Orison Swett MardenSourced
- The worst education that teaches self-denial is better than the best that teaches everything else and not that.