Discipline Quotes

Nothing is more harmful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army superiority over another.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves.

If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

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.

Discipline in its highest notion is not punishment or self-punishment. It is rather something seminal to the self. It is our foundation. It is our architecture. It gives us structure. It allows us to steer our energies and pull our wagon.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.

He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion.

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Discipline is remembering what you want.