Mental Discipline Quotes

#1. I know there are actors we all want to beat up a little. I think it's important to do whatever it takes, and whatever it takes sometimes involves some physical or mental discipline. There's a lot at stake.

Ryan Reynolds

#2. It's mental discipline that sets one apart, the ability to think differently and to generate energy in the right direction.

Sachin Tendulkar

#3. The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.

John Lancaster Spalding

#4. All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

Mark Hopkins

#5. The greatest single lesson to be learned from golf is mental discipline.

Louise Suggs

#6. Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time.

Max Picard

#7. Too many people have refused to begin running or have quickly dropped out of running programs because they 'have no talent for it.' Ridiculous. Talent has nothing to do with it. The only thing that matters is mental discipline.

Amby Burfoot

#8. The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense use in attaining the mental powers necessary in Magick; on the other hand, the discipline of Magick is of the greatest service in Yoga.

Aleister Crowley

#9. Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax.

Nicholas Kristof

#10. Desire plus sacrifice plus discipline equals preparation. Preparation plus success equals confidence. Mental toughness plus pride equals perseverance. If you have confidence and persevere, you will always have the edge. If you have the edge, you will succeed. Eventually.

Steve Siebold

#11. The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to any minds but those abounding in knowledge and disciplined in intellectual combinations.

John Stuart Mill

#12. Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage.

Edward M. Hallowell

#13. God only knew what ran underneath the fierce self-discipline and emotional control that had come with my upbringing. But the cracks were there, I knew it, and they frightened me.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#14. Fundamentally, what everyone needs is mental strength and confidence, to manage the mind, just as we manage the outside world.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#15. Every problem contains a solution. The key is self-discipline and surrender of the mental habits to the Holy Spirit.

Harold Klemp

#16. Discipline - both mental and physical - is crucial.

Anna Deavere Smith

#17. Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.

Sri Aurobindo

#18. Your mental attitude is someting 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

#19. Enjoy the fashions, read the good articles, and when you feel threatened, turn your mental gaze inward, but keep your eyes on the road, or you won't know where you are going. Have a practice or discipline that lets you be in touch with your inner self, your soul.

Rebecca Pidgeon

#20. In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

William Baldwin

#21. Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience. It is the deliberate cultivation of inner order.

Charles R. Swindoll

#22. Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.

Nathaniel Branden

#23. That is why the discipline of managing mental models - surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works - promises to be a major breakthrough for building learning organizations.

Peter M. Senge

#24. The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.

M. Scott Peck

#25. Mental confusion can be the product of divine discipline.

Max Anders