Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Discipline Quotes

"I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back"

Kate Moss, Model

"That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself"

Joyce Maynard, Writer

"I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write"

John Irving, Novelist

"I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing, a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which"

Gary Ryan Blair, Writer

"How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge, I am happy"

Anna Held, Entertainer

"We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"I put a lot of pressure on myself, more than anyone else"

Mats Sundin, Athlete

"I haven't got a lot of patience"

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Producer

"A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it"

William Frederick Book, Writer

"When you arrive at a certain level it's very easy to say yes: that is the moment to learn to say no"

Jose Carreras, Musician

"I have had to learn about saying no"

Jaclyn Smith, Actress

"Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age"

Anna Held, Entertainer

"I love good food, but I follow strict rules the days I perform"

Jose Carreras, Musician

"I take responsibility for myself and what I do now"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"I am very disciplined in my life and very up front. It is the only way I can do it and do it well. I am up every day at 7, and I feed my kids, no matter how long the day was"

Sean Hannity, Writer

"I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off"

Karl Malone, Athlete

"My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits"

Isabelle Adjani, Actress

"I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do"

Vince Gill, Musician

"First, resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety"

David Brainerd, Clergyman

"These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word, it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained"

Major Taylor, Athlete

"An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability, and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions, for obvious reasons"

Major Taylor, Athlete

"If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life, you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work"

Russell Banks, Author

"The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results"

Major Taylor, Athlete

"Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper"

Hannah More, Writer

"Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time"

Larry Hagman, Actor

"No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life"

Jesse James, Criminal

"Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel, by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear"

Dan Millman, Author

"For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can"

Jay Hernandez, Actor

"That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts, and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction"

David O. Russell, Director

"Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination"

Evelyn Underhill, Writer

"I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while"

George Steinbrenner, Businessman

"Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure"

Gary Ryan Blair, Writer

"The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that"

Evelyn Underhill, Writer

"I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity"

John Malkovich, Actor

"Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours"

Frank Moore Colby, Educator

"You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that's dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level"

Christian Slater, Actor

"I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me"

Boz Scaggs, Musician

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