Discipline
544 quotes: 59 by Keith Craft, 485 from other voices.
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- Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
- Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.
- Focus on building habits, not chasing outcomes.
- Focus on one thing, make it your priority, and stick with it no matter what!
- For if, resolutely, people do what is right, in time they come to like doing it.
- For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
- Freedom goes hand in hand with your ability to restrict yourself.
- Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
- From the outside self-discipline looks like restriction. But from the inside it feels like self-respect.
- Frugality is a fair fortune; and habits of industry a good estate.
- Get out there and do what you’re supposed to do whether you feel like it or not.
- Getting to the next level of life involves reaching another level of self-discipline.
- Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.
- Go to your task with love in your heart and you will go to it light-hearted and cheerful.
- Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.
- Good Habits are mentors, guardian angels, and servants that regulate your sleep, your work, your thought.
- Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
- Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance; yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigour three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.
- Greatness is first and foremost a matter of conscious choice and discipline.
- Habit formation is the art of becoming someone new.
- Habit is either the best of servants, or the worst of masters.
- Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
- Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
- Habits change into character.
- Habits form character and character is destiny.Joseph KainesSourced
- Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
- Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.
- Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time.
- Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
- He is one of the noblest conquerors who carries on a successful warfare against his own appetites and passions, and has them under wise and full control.
- He that hath gained an entire conquest over himself will find no mighty difficulties to subdue all other opposition.
- He who cannot obey himself will be commanded.
- He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.
- He who keeps steadily on without pausing, will reach the end of his path and the summit of perfection.
- He that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.
- I am certain that there is nothing good, great or desirable which man can possess in this world, that does not come by some kind of labor, either physical or mental, moral or spiritual.
- I don’t have talent, so I just get up earlier.
- I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline.
- I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done.
- I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.