Discipline
544 quotes: 59 by Keith Craft, 485 from other voices.
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- I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
- I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.Lord NelsonSourced
- I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves.
- I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours every day, by not taking care of the minutes.
- I recommend you take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.
- I will do today what I can do to enable me to do tomorrow what I can’t do today.
- Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
- Idleness is the burial of a living man.
- If a man does not exercise his arm he develops no biceps muscle; and if a man does not exercise his soul, he acquires no muscle in his soul, no strength of character, no vigor of moral fibre, no beauty of spiritual growth.
- If I feel myself disinclined to pray, then is the time when I need to pray more than ever.
- If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
- If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
- If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
- If you can get through things that you hate to do, on the other side is greatness.
- If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend its increase.
- If you don’t make time for exercise, you’ll probably have to make time for illness.
- If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.
- If you have no power over yourself, then you’re at the whim of everything else in this world.
- If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn't pay to sit and look at it for very long.
- If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?
- If you know how to spend less than you get you have the philosopher's stone.
- If you lose self-control everything will fall.
- If you need inspiration, don’t do it.
- If you only ever did the things you don't want to do, you'd have everything you've ever wanted.
- If you quit once it becomes a habit. Never quit!
- If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
- If you want better outcomes, learn to do the boring work when no one is watching.
- If your habits don’t line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream.
- Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
- In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.
- In the measure that you master self, that you control your mental forces instead of being controlled by them, in just such measure will you master affairs and outward circumstances.
- In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
- In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle.
- In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
- Indolence is the sleep of the spirit.
- Indulge in procrastination, and in time you will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.
- Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
- Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.
- Intensity of desire will always find a way, just as weakness of purpose will always find an excuse.
- It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening.