Discipline
544 quotes: 59 by Keith Craft, 485 from other voices.
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- All men commend patience, though few be willing to practise it.
- All pleasure must be bought at the price of pain. The difference between false pleasure and true pleasure is put thus: for the true, the price is paid before you enjoy it; for the false, after you enjoy it.
- Always rise from table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
- Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
- An idler is a watch that wants both hands.
- Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.
- Be average at the things you do once and exceptional at the things you do often.
- Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
- Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
- Blaze your own way, make your own path, or you will never make any impression on the world.Orison Swett MardenSourced
- Bottom line if you want success of any kind: you have to be comfortable being uncomfortable.
- Build the habits that shape your future, not the ones that entertain your present.
- But we do not attack these things concretely, and we do not begin to-day. We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
- Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.
- By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
- By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
- Can my current habits carry me to my desired future?
- Champions are brilliant at the basics.
- Character is impulse that has been reined down into steady continuance.
- Character is simply habit long continued.
- Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.
- Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be. Custom will render it easy and agreeable.
- Choose rather to punish your appetites than to be punished by them.
- Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.
- Concentration is the ROOT of all the higher abilities in man.
- Consistency finishes what intensity starts.
- Consistency is the key to achieving and maintaining momentum.
- Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill.
- Courage is a muscle.
- Curiosity is the spark of discovery. Discipline is the fuel of progress.
- Daily affirmations are great. Daily reminders are better. Daily actions are best.
- Despondency and cheerfulness, anger and calmness, covetousness and generosity--indeed, all states of mind--are habits built up by choice, until they have become automatic.
- Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.
- Devote each day to the object then in time, and every evening will find something done.
- Discipline comes through self-control. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. You may see at one and the same time both your best friend and your greatest enemy, by stepping in front of a mirror.
- Discipline, consistency and patience. If you lack these, you won’t grow.
- Discipline equals freedom.
- Discipline has within it the potential for creating future miracles.
- Discipline is a choice. It’s simply consistently choosing the hard right over the easy wrong.