Quotes on Self Discipline
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
.............H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.
.............Tenzin Gyatso
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first.
.............Harry S Truman
Discipline really means our ability to get ourselves to do things when we don't want.
.............Arden Mahlberg
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
.............Grenville Kleiser
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
.............Buddha
Self-discipline 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.
.............Napolean Hill
If you're not willing to accept your own discipline, you're not going to accomplish two percent of what you could - and you're going to miss out on 98% of the good things you could have.
.............Tom Hopkins
One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with your luck.
.............Carl Zuckmayer
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
.............Abraham Joshua
Your mental attitude is something you can control outright and you must use self discipline until you create a positive mental attitude - your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.
.............Napoleon Hill
Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.
.............Paramahansa Yogananda
Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.
.............Vince Lombard
Discipline is remembering what you want.
.............David Campbell
First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer.
.............Rob Gilbert
Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear-and doubt. Self-discipline allows a pitcher to feel his individuality, his inner strength, his talent. He is master of, rather than a slave to, his thoughts and emotions.
.............H.A. Dorfman
