Discipline
544 quotes: 59 by Keith Craft, 485 from other voices.
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- It is astonishing how soon the whole conscience begins to unravel if a single stitch drops; one single sin indulged in makes a hole you could put your head through.
- It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
- It is just as easy to form a good habit as it is a bad one. And it is just as hard to break a good habit as a bad one. So get the good ones and keep them.
- It is literally true that man, through the Law of Habit, shapes his own personality.
- It is not industry, but idleness, that is degrading.
- It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters.
- It’s better to do less than you hoped than nothing at all. No zero days.
- It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
- It’s the things no one sees that result in the things everyone wants.
- It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.
- It's what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public.
- I’ve learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.
- Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
- Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
- Learn to convert the discomfort of discipline into the satisfaction of personal growth.
- Learn to say No! and it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
- Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
- Let men laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
- Let your strongest muscle be the will.
- Life gets better when you do things when you don’t “feel” like it because it’s good for future you.
- Life is too short," she panicked, "I want more." He nodded slowly, "Wake up earlier.
- Live on what you have; live if you can on less; do not borrow either for vanity or pleasure--the vanity will end in shame, and the pleasure in regret.
- Losing is a habit. So is winning. Now let’s work on permanently instilling winning habits into your life.
- Love labour; for if thou dost not want it for food, thou may'st for physic.
- Love, therefore, labor; if thou shouldst not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome to the body and good for the mind; it prevents the fruit of idleness.
- Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
- Make it easy to do what matters and hard to do what doesn’t.
- Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.
- Make your resolutions so clear and firm that nothing can lure you from your chosen path of purpose and duty.
- Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
- Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
- Many people think of knowledge as of money. They would like knowledge, but cannot face the perseverance and self-denial that go to the acquisition of it.
- Maturity is learning how to start when you feel like procrastinating and learning how to listen when you feel like talking.
- Maturity is the ability to delay gratification in pursuit of a greater goal.
- Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
- Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
- Men are strong just in proportion as they have the ability to say NO, and stand by it.
- Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance.