Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Discipline Quotes

"For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline"

Anthony Doerr, Writer

"I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now"

Leonardo DiCaprio, Actor

"Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs"

Leonardo DiCaprio, Actor

"Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction"

John Owen, Theologian

"Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you"

John Owen, Theologian

"Be strict with yourself and kind to others; this is how the heart becomes strong"

Abai Qunanbaiuly, Poet

"Everything is possible with discipline"

Karol G, Musician

"I try to keep a level head and stay even-keeled, but sometimes the passion takes over and you get emotional"

Jonathan Quick, Athlete

"I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it"

Jeanette MacDonald, Actress

"Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to, but you have to react. Normally, I just walk away"

Bubba Smith, Athlete

"I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink"

Dana Plato, Actress

"Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you"

Paul Kantner, Musician

"I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort"

Thomas Lynch, Politician

"I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time"

Elliott Gould, Actor

"Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden"

Isaac Watts, Politician

"Don't make excuses and don't talk about it. Do it"

Melvyn Douglas, Actor

"The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do"

Barbara Ann Scott, Athlete

"No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it"

Grace Slick, Musician

"I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It's a very important part of my personal discipline"

Bob Graham, Politician

"However, lifestyle intervention requires discipline with a tangible end result that is within reach. It requires personal resolve, a lifelong commitment"

Tim Holden, Politician

"I know how deeply slothful I am"

Joseph Epstein, Writer

"If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't get distracted by what's going on and focus better"

George Dzundza, Actor

"I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things"

Vince Vaughn, Actor

"Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron"

Ezra Cornell, Businessman

"That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life"

Herschel Walker, Athlete

"You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one"

Tom Kite, Athlete

"I'm definitely a messy person... I know where everything is, but I just can't organize. I don't make lists, and find scripts on the laundry machine, and under my bed, or in the bathroom, kitchen. It's bad, I really need to take control"

Katie Holmes, Actress

"I am not allowing myself to get carried away"

Damon Hill, Athlete

"I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words"

Arthur Hailey, Novelist

"And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint"

Algernon H. Blackwood, Writer

"Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline"

Edwin Percy Whipple, Writer

"Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily"

James J. Corbett, Athlete

""No" is something you use a lot, and when you start using it you have a whip in your hands"

Lou Schultz, Writer

"So, without being cold, you really have to try to retain the capacity to help people without becoming too emotional or allowing your own emotions to have full rein"

Guy Green, Politician

"There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues"

George Dennison Prentice, Editor

"The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipline"

Jerome Hines, Musician

"I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"I don't go to clubs and stuff like that, so I don't have to put up with it in there. And normally, because obviously I could hurt somebody, and if I look at it that way, I have to back off"

Bubba Smith, Athlete

"There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted"

James Branch Cabell, Novelist

"I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart"

Max Weinberg, Musician

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