Discipline
544 quotes: 59 by Keith Craft, 485 from other voices.
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- Discipline is being able to force yourself to do something is spite of how you feel, over and over until it becomes a habit.Kim BrennemanCommonly attributed
- Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage.
- Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.
- Discipline is doing what you really don’t want to do so you can do what you really want to do.Jeff FisherCommonly attributed
- Discipline is nothing but self-respect at the highest level.
- Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.Darrin PatrickCommonly attributed
- Discipline is remembering what you want.
- Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
- Discipline is the compass that guides you to your goals.
- Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
- Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons.Jim RohnCommonly attributed
- Discipline yourself and others won’t need to.
- Discipline yourself so no one else has to.
- Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
- Do it for tomorrow’s version of you.
- Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.
- Do something every single day that moves you in the direction of your most important goal at the moment.
- Do something that doesn’t feel good now to feel good later.
- Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
- Do the work tired. Do the work nervous. Do the work imperfectly. Do the work even when you don’t feel like it. Because no matter how bad you feel when you start, you know exactly how you’ll feel when you finish.
- Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.
- Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on discipline.
- Don’t make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what’s actually good for you.
- Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
- Elite producers and everyday heroes understand that what you do each day matters far more than what you do once in a while.
- Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure; and, since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
- Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
- Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
- Enthusiasm sets the Embers glowing, But only Work can keep the Fire going.
- Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.
- Every habit and faculty is maintained and increased by the corresponding actions: the habit of walking by walking, the habit of running by running. If you would be a good reader, read; if a writer, write.
- Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, — as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running.
- Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
- Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.
- Everyone who wins pays a price. You have to give up something to get something.
- Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
- Excellence isn’t a one-week or one-year ideal. It’s a constant.
- Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.