Discipline
544 quotes: 59 by Keith Craft, 485 from other voices.
Other voices on Discipline
- There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.
- There are no shortcuts. There are no magic potions. There are no work-arounds.
- There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.
- There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.William JamesSourced
- There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
- There never did, and never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to the exercise of resolute self-denial.
- There’s a ritual that you have to engage in in order to step into your greatness.
- These suggestions will give you the necessary instructions: First: Form the habit of doing each day the most distasteful tasks first.
- They have great powers, and they waste them pitifully, for they have not the greatest power,--the power to rule the use of their powers.
- Three tips for becoming successful: consistency, consistency, and consistency.
- Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.
- Through discipline comes freedom.
- Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.
- Time stays long enough for those who use it.
- To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.
- To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.
- To commence many things and not to finish them is no small fault; we must persevere in whatever we undertake with upright intention and according to God's will.
- To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.
- To faint or loiter, when only the last efforts are required, is to steer the ship through tempests, and abandon it to the winds in sight of land; it is to break the ground and scatter the seed, and at last to neglect the harvest.
- Today, do just a little bit more. Turn going the extra mile into a habit - it is what lifts most successful people above the crowd.
- Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.
- Together with intelligence, self-control turns out to be the best predictor of a successful and satisfying life.
- Try and keep on trying until that which seems difficult becomes possible and that which seems only possible becomes habit and a real part of you.
- Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.Horace MannSourced
- Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
- Watch someone’s daily habits today and you will understand what their future looks like.
- We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits.
- We are ruled by our habits. When habits are young they are like lion-cubs, soft, fluffy, funny, frolicsome little animals. They grow day by day. Eventually they rule you.
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.
- We are what we repeatedly do.
- We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.
- We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.
- We don’t rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our training.
- We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
- We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
- We know the law of human nature: acts produce habits, habits breed dispositions, dispositions form the will, and the rightly-formed will is character.
- We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
- We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.Jim RohnCommonly attributed
- We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? what passion opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
- We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny.C. A. HallCommonly attributed