Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Discipline Quotes

"Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values"

Joshua L. Liebman, Writer

"I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you"

Shel Silverstein, Poet

"You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists"

Matthew Broderick, Actor

"I give myself strength by staying away from any music"

Alannah Myles, Musician

"My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away, not having the patience to let things develop"

Paul Gleason, Actor

"I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge"

Joan Armatrading, Musician

"If you don't run your own life, somebody else will"

John Atkinson, Judge

"It's so difficult. Sometimes if I have dessert, I think, 'Well, I blew it.' That's something I need to work on and control. But still there's nothing like a buffet"

Donna Dixon, Actress

"In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline"

Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, Statesman

"Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it"

Eknath Easwaran, Author

"You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present"

William H. O'Connell, Clergyman

"We're really in control; that's the difference. We were out of control then"

Peter Criss, Musician

"I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke"

Victoria Jackson, Comedian

"Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man"

Larry Holmes, Athlete

"I feel I should be doing stupid stuff, but I'm not going to"

Scott Caan, Actor

"Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself"

Robert Foster Bennett, Politician

"You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out"

James Daly, Actor

"I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it"

Omar Sharif, Actor

"Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind"

Nafisa Joseph, Model

"I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself"

Connie Mack, Businessman

"I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life"

James Ellroy, Writer

"If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim, no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited"

Beatrice Potter Webb, Sociologist

"I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything"

Tony Shalhoub, Actor

"My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline"

Mary Garden

"So I cut out all the drinkin' and hangin' out and stuff like that early on"

Luther Allison, Musician

"Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top"

Bob Richards, Athlete

"I get sidetracked very easily"

Heather Donahue, Actress

"As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested"

Tom Kite, Athlete

"I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control"

Tim Tebow, Athlete

"Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness"

Donald Cargill, Clergyman

"It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it"

Eva Gabor, Actress

"I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Let's take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted"

Pauline Marois, Politician

"You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be"

Herbie Mann, Musician

"I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process"

Freddie Hubbard, Musician

"Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory"

Frederick William Faber, Theologian

"I just want to focus on one thing at a time"

Josh Silver, Musician

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