Discipline Yourself Quotes

#1. Everything big, once started little. Discipline yourself and work to become an excellent person at what you want. Stretch yourself daily and go a little further than yesterday. Growth is the key to winning success.

Mark LaMoure

#2. I think it goes hand in hand because if you discipline yourself on the floor, as you become an older player or a more seasoned individual, it adds structure in your life.

Dominique Wilkins

#3. It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize.

Joel Stein

#4. You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred

Gautama Buddha

#5. Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.

Pat Summitt

#6. When you discipline yourself to do what is hard, you gain access to a realm of results that are denied everyone else. The willingness to do what is difficult is like having a key to a special private treasure room.

Steve Pavlina

#7. You're not going to be a writer someday. You're a writer today. Discipline yourself to write and take time to enjoy writing. Do it a lot. Have fun with it. Begin now.

Jack Heffron

#8. Discipline yourself to be a disciple of great works and to do that excellently, you have to wave "bye-bye" to some things and then switch off your inner person not to go near them again!

Israelmore Ayivor

#9. All through my career I've written 1,000 words a day - even if I've got a hangover. You've got to discipline yourself if you're professional. There's no other way.

J.G. Ballard

#10. Discipline yourself so that all expectations, and inspiration, begin with your core values before relying on someone else's to better your life.

Steven Cuoco

#11. To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition.

Arturo Sandoval

#12. The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.

Brian Tracy

#13. To live out God's plan for your life calls for you to discipline yourself ... and your body. To push yourself. To deny yourself.

Elizabeth George

#14. You don't discipline yourself to attain the feeling of love. You attain the feeling of love and then you want to discipline yourself because you love the discipline, because it brings more love.

Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

#15. One way to become creative is to discipline yourself to generate bad ideas. The worse the better. Do it a lot and magically you'll discover that some good ones slip through.

Seth Godin

#16. Discipline yourself - so others don't have to.

John Wooden

#17. 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.

Brian Tracy

#18. No matter how sweet is smells, if you know it will give you a discomfort later, don't even attempt to taste it. Discipline yourself to stay out of sin!

Israelmore Ayivor

#19. Discipline yourself so others won't have to.

John Wooden

#20. Discipline yourself to boil down your story/new business/philanthropic enterprise to a single page.

Steven Pressfield

#21. It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.

Arthur Lydiard

#22. Discipline yourself and others won't need to.

John Wooden

#23. If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you.

Leonard Orr

#24. Discipline yourself to find something positive in every situation every day. You attract positivity when you are positive within.

Brian Tracy

#25. Do you have to discipline yourself to have breakfast, lunch or dinner? Of course not; and so discipline - the usual concept of it - doesn't apply here. I had to discipline myself to learn English, but never to train.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#26. Don't give Satan a foothold, but discipline yourself to stay close to God. He alone is your security.

Billy Graham

#27. I feel like you can will yourself into a good space. Things that are meant to happen, will. If you believe in yourself enough, you can help yourself learn. You can inspire yourself in ways to discipline yourself to a point where you CAN become good enough.

Curtis Jackson

#28. If you can discipline yourself to read, you can free up two years of your life for the good stuff!)

Seth Godin

#29. Your job is to control yourself. Your job is to discipline yourself. Your job is to deal with everything in life with affection, love and kindness.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#30. Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty books a year.

Wilferd Peterson

#31. There is one prevailing key to success. Do what you resolve to do. Then you'll be a success. If you can discipline yourself to follow through on your promises to yourself, your self-esteem goes up. Persistence is self-discipline in action. Self-discipline is the foundation of self-confidence .

Brian Tracy

#32. The trick is not to learn to trust your gut feelings, but rather to discipline yourself to ignore them. Stand by your stocks as long as the fundamental story of the company hasn't changed.

Peter Lynch

#33. Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.

Brian Tracy

#34. You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize.

Charlize Theron

#35. Discipline yourself to start each day identifying something to be grateful about. The world opens to those who approach it with a grateful heart.

Michael Josephson

#36. The more you discipline yourself to use your time well, the happier you will feel and the better will be the quality of your life in every area.

Brian Tracy

#37. Your ability to think, plan, and work hard in the short term and to discipline yourself to do what is right and necessary before you do what is fun and easy is the key to creating a wonderful future for yourself.

Brian Tracy

#38. If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.

Thomas A Kempis

#39. Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to
self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt,
that's real power.

Clint Eastwood

#40. In real estate, discipline translates into fully understanding your investment goals and surrounding yourself with the right tools and skills to successfully achieve those goals.

Kassandra Taggart

#41. Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.

Toni Servillo

#42. It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

Vince Lombardi

#43. Discipline is freedom. It is you getting yourself to do what you really want to do.

Patricia Moreno

#44. Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically.

Matt Smith

#45. The best form of respect is self respect. Give it to yourself and others will see that you won't settle for anything less.

Auliq Ice

#46. Make yourself a slave to good habits

Dan John

#47. Karate-do may be referred to as the conflict within yourself, or a life-long marathon which can be won only through self-discipline, hard training, and your own creative efforts.

Shoshin Nagamine

#48. Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself; 'Are all the disciplines that I'm currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?'

Jim Rohn

#49. Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.

Bobby Bowden

#50. For the kind of places I've written for and the kind of writing that I've done, the general way to think about your audience is to think about somebody who's like yourself, but in a completely different discipline.

Louis Menand

#51. The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself- including things like using your time well. In this way, self-discipline is self-caring.

M. Scott Peck

#52. But even though disciplining yourself is sometimes diffcult and involves struggle, self-discipline is not self-punishment. It is instead an attempt to do what, prompted by the Spirit, you actually want in your heart to do.

Donald S. Whitney

#53. You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!' and do something. It's specific hours set aside every day for certain things.

Kumail Nanjiani

#54. The most valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose upon yourself. Don't wait for things to deteriorate so drastically that someone else must impose discipline into your life.

Jim Rohn

#55. 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.

Elbert Hubbard

#56. You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.

Jim Whittaker

#57. Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally.

Wes Fesler

#58. Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.

Henry Ward Beecher

#59. Being strong-willed is not enough, however. You also have to be hard on yourself. Someone who was strong-willed but self-indulgent would not be called determined. Determination implies your willfulness is balanced by discipline.

Paul Graham

#60. Keep in mind the challenging fact that your aim is not to get ahead of others, but to surpass yourself; to begin today to be the person you want to be.

Hugh B. Brown

#61. Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action

Bob Proctor

#62. Consistency requires discipline. Force yourself out the door.

Bob Glover

#63. Every night, you fight for that standing ovation at the end of the night. And if you do something wrong, the domino effect is chaotic. And you must not allow yourself to make mistakes whatsoever. So in that case, theater, it's fascinating because of the discipline that you need.

Ricky Martin

#64. Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It's about discipline. You have to push yourself.

Tori Amos

#65. Invest in yourself. Invest in self-discipline. Invest in self-satisfaction. Have complete control over your own thoughts and convictions, and never stop aiming to outdo yourself.

Lionel Suggs

#66. The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.

Jack Nicholson

#67. TV is a completely different discipline, which I think I am still learning about. You just have to learn how to work fast and pace yourself.

Rose Byrne

#68. Once one habit peels away the others follow it. You have to hold on, or the next thing you'll find yourself parading down the street in your nightdress. Habit is everything.

Helen Dunmore

#69. It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

John Major

#70. As a dancer, I'd dance with broken toes. Just like acting, you compete with yourself and drive forward. That discipline helped in Hollywood.

Jaime Pressly

#71. This bridge will take you halfway there - the last few steps you will have to take yourself.

Shel Silverstein

#72. Restrict yourself to choice and refusal; and exercise them carefully, with discipline and detachment.

Epictetus

#73. I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.

Naomi Benaron

#74. To be great at whatever it is that you do, it's going to take some discipline to separate yourself from the average.

Andy Andrews

#75. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter - - - for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself ... Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

Sylvia Plath

#76. If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?

John C. Maxwell

#77. Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.

Brian Tracy

#78. Make a list of goals for every year, tick them off & reward yourself when you achieve each one. Will give much discipline in your life.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#79. Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline ... too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with ... something about yourself, your career, your spouse

Dale Dauten

#80. Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.

Harper Lee

#81. College is a time in life where you get to know yourself as a player on the pitch and off the pitch. My coaches at USF were instrumental in making me understand the discipline it takes to succeed at the next level. Those were four special years for me.

Jeff Cunningham

#82. I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart.

Charlie Munger

#83. I back up all my rules with discipline. So you'd be giving yourself over to me. Mine to punish. Mine to pleasure

Renee Rose

#84. And success in any endeavor where self-discipline is involved boils down to this question: can you make yourself do something you don't particularly want to do in order to get a result you would like to have?

Andy Andrews

#85. Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

James Young

#86. There is nothing like having to change your physical form to put you in contact with every weak part of yourself, to train yourself in discipline. Put somebody on a treadmill and I'll tell you how good they are at any other thing they do in life.

Will Smith

#87. The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.

Madonna Ciccone

#88. There is no difference between a hero and a coward in what they feel. It's what they do that makes them different. The hero and the coward feel exactly the same, but you have to have the discipline to do what a hero does and to keep yourself from doing what the coward does.

Cus D'Amato

#89. You cannot stop loving your child because you know that he has committed a wrong action. But you certainly stop loving yourself for loving him.

~ Rudransh Kashyap

Kirtida Gautam

#90. If you have self-respect, you will take satisfaction in being well groomed and will not allow yourself to perform shabbily. You will continue to work toward high standards and goals to serve others, to continue and to practice self-discipline. You will not compromise your standards or beliefs.

Marvin J. Ashton

#91. One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine ... who one is and wants to be.

May Sarton

#92. If you manage yourself, you control the flow of your time to the right direction. It takes self-discipline to be at the center of control for your own time.

Israelmore Ayivor

#93. Success = Wisdom + Courage + Discipline. KNOW what to do, be BRAVE enough to do it, and LEAD YOURSELF to doing it again and again.

Ryan Lilly

#94. Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#95. It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.

Cornel West

#96. The kids say golf taught them this and that. I get it with the military: A guy joins the military because he needs discipline and has to find himself. But don't tell me, 'Golf helps you find yourself.' I've been playing my whole life, and I'm still looking for myself.

Lewis Black

#97. Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#98. Your ability to get along with others flows naturally from how well you are getting along with yourself from your own internal peace and harmony which is itself a function of your peace and harmony with God and your family.

Stephen Covey

#99. To participate requires self-discipline and trust and courage, because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, as my friend Dale puts it, How alive am I willing to be?

Anne Lamott

#100. It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

Zig Ziglar