Discipline
544 quotes: 59 by Keith Craft, 485 from other voices.
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- Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
- Prayer without watching is hypocrisy; and watching without prayer is presumption.
- Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
- Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
- Put yourself close to your work, bear hard upon it, stay by it, and get it done.
- Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
- Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
- Remember, every professional was once an amateur, and every master started as a beginner. Ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary feats, once they’ve routinized the right habits.
- Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.
- Resist manfully, and the first decision will give strength for life; repeated, it will become a habit.
- Resolution will sometimes relax, and diligence will sometimes be interrupted; but let no accidental surprise or deviation, whether short or long, dispose you to despondency.
- Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
- Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
- Rest at the end, not at the middle.
- Reverie is a loose dreaming into which a man falls; meditation is a strong, purposeful thinking into which a man rises.
- Review each night what you have actually done during the day, and resolve to do still greater things.
- Rome wasn’t built in a day, but they were laying bricks every hour. You don’t have to do it all today. Just lay a brick. That’s how you build an empire.
- Routine is a terrible master, but she is a servant whom we can hardly do without. Routine as a law is deadly. Routine as a resource in the temporary exhaustion of impulse and suggestion is often our salvation.
- [S]tudy hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.Richard FeynmanSourced
- Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
- Self-control is strength; Right Thought is mastery; Calmness is power.
- Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.
- Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
- Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
- Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
- Self-respect is the fruit of discipline, the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
- Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
- Short-term results come from intensity. Long-term results come from consistency.
- Showing up is the first step. Every. Single. Day.
- Shun idleness, it is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
- Sin first is pleasing, then it grows easy, then delightful, then frequent, then habitual, then confirmed; then the man is impenitent, then he is obstinate, then he is resolved never to repent, and then he is ruined.
- Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour wears, while the used key is always bright.
- Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy.
- Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
- Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.
- Small excuses in self-discipline may seem trivial, but they are not. Employed on a small scale successfully we soon find that the word "No" can win large battles as well.
- Small habits are louder than big plans.
- So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.