Discipline
544 quotes: 59 by Keith Craft, 485 from other voices.
Other voices on Discipline
- 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.
- We underpin our houses with granite; what of our habits and our lives?
- What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.
- What maintains one vice would bring up two children. Remember, many a little makes a mickle; and further, beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
- What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
- What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
- What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
- What would the world be like if people stopped avoiding the things they knew they should do?
- What you do daily determines what you become permanently.
- Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
- Whatever you would make habitual, practise it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practise it, but habituate yourself to something else.
- When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?John Maynard KeynesSourced
- When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up.
- When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
- When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
- Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
- Whenever you will to do anything, will it with all there is in you.
- Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.
- Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Without commitment, you’ll never start. Without consistency, you’ll never finish.
- Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it can no longer hold itself erect.
- Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them every thing.
- Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
- Work ethic beats talent when talent doesn’t work.
- Work, Finish, Publish.
- Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.
- Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.
- Wouldst thou have thy flesh obey thy spirit? Then let thy spirit obey thy God. Thou must be governed, that thou may'st govern.
- Write your goals down — and be specific. Then review them regularly, and you’ll be more motivated on tough days.
- You are not what you’ve done. You are what you keep doing.
- You become what you repeat.
- You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for.
- You can outwork 95% of people by just showing up every day.
- You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
- You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
- You get what you repeat.James ClearCommonly attributed
- You have a choice between what you want now and what you want most. Don’t let feeling good today come at the expense of the decade. Be patient. Keep the end in mind.
- You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.
- You have to discipline yourself to do something the right way until it’s second nature.
- You have to practice even, maybe especially, when it hurts.