If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
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.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest.
Without discipline, there's no life at all.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of battle.
Discipline enables you to think first and act second.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day fastened a halter, but which now you cannot catch. It is a lion you cage in your study. As the work grows, it gets harder to control; it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room. You enter its room with bravura, holding a chair at the thing and shouting, "Simba!
Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Anybody who gets away with something will come back to get away with a little bit more.
Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices.
I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.
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