Discipline
544 quotes: 59 by Keith Craft, 485 from other voices.
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- Mental toughness and resilience fade if they aren’t used consistently. I say it all the time: you are either getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.
- More are made good by exercitation than by nature.
- Most people aren’t faster than you, they’re just more consistently focused than you.
- Most people can’t handle boredom. That means they can’t stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they’re unhappy.
- Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.
- Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.
- Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. That’s the Law of Consistency. It doesn’t matter how talented you are. It doesn’t matter how many opportunities you receive. If you want to grow, consistency is key.
- Motivation is garbage. You don’t need to feel like it to do it. You need discipline. A push. A decision. Waiting to feel ready is the fastest way to stay stuck. You want change? 5-4-3-2-1 move.
- Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
- Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
- Never bet against a person who just keeps showing up.
- Never leave that till to-morrow, which you can do to-day.
- Never let go of integrity, generosity, and love, for these, coupled with energy, will lift you into the truly prosperous state.
- Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
- New goals don’t deliver new results. New lifestyles do. And a lifestyle is a process, not an outcome. For this reason, all of your energy should go into building better habits, not chasing better results.
- No conflict is so severe as his who labours to subdue himself.
- No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.William PennSourced
- No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
- Nothing will destroy the confidence of others so quickly as a doubt in our own minds.
- Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
- Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
- One form of perseverance is the daily discipline of trying to do things better than we did yesterday.
- One of the most important, but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is, to be its own master. A pond may lie quiet in a plain; but a lake wants mountains to compass and hold it in.
- One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to duty, is worth all the mere good thoughts, warm feelings, passionate prayers in which idle people indulge themselves.
- One small win before 9 AM sets the tone for 9 PM. Make your bed. Go for a walk. Journal for 10 minutes. Momentum is built, not gifted.
- One who conquers others is strong. One who conquers himself is all-powerful.
- Only the disciplined ones are purely free in life and the undisciplined are slaves to their moods and passions.
- Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one’s self; order is power.
- Our choices add up; each one influences others, and cumulatively a series of delightful short-term choices can leave us much worse off in the long run.
- Own your morning. Elevate your life.
- Passion gets less and less powerful after every defeat.
- Patience is not passive, on the contrary, it is concentrated strength.
- People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.
- People who consult their moods, their preferences, or their ease never make a great success in life. It is the man who gets a firm grip on himself and forces himself to do the thing that will ultimately be best for him, who succeeds.
- Perform at your best when your best is required. Your best is required each day.
- Plan your work - work your plan
- Pleasure soon exhausts us and itself also; but endeavor never does.
- Postponement: The father of failure.
- Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.
- Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.