Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Discipline Quotes

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"Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind"

Isaac Pitman, Inventor

"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"With self-discipline most anything is possible"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

Albert Schweitzer

"Because you know how you say I've got to really get down and really do some training and then, of course, you never do or you do it for a couple of weeks and slough it back off again, but I'm being forced to do something that I really want to do and I loved it"

David Carradine, Actor

David Carradine

"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

Jim Rohn

"Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee"

George Herbert, Poet

George Herbert

"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

"Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them, you must"

Swami Sivananda, Philosopher

Swami Sivananda

"It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality"

Og Mandino, Author

Og Mandino

"I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness"

Denzel Washington, Actor

Denzel Washington

"Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder"

Mason Cooley, Writer

Mason Cooley

"Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel"

Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman

Charles Spurgeon

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

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator

Abraham Joshua Heschel

"If you want more, you have to require more from yourself"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

Phil McGraw

"Concentrate, don't embroider"

Spencer Tracy, Actor

Spencer Tracy

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

Zig Ziglar, Author

"By constant self-discipline and self-control, you can develop greatness of character"

Grenville Kleiser, Author

"You possess a potent force that you either use or misuse hundreds of times every day"

J. Martin Kohe, Psychologist

J. Martin Kohe

"Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness"

May Sarton, Poet

May Sarton

"It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it"

Arthur Lydiard, Athlete

Arthur Lydiard

"If we do not discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us"

William Feather, Author

"Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect"

Bruno Bettelheim, Writer

Bruno Bettelheim

"It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal"

Stirling Moss, Celebrity

Stirling Moss

"Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage"

Timothy Spall, Actor

"Discipline is remembering what you want"

David Campbell, Politician

"The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher"

Anna C. Brackett, Educator

"No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

Pythagoras

"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and then proceed to greater"

Epictetus, Philosopher

Epictetus

"Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

W. C. Fields

"Where id was, there ego shall be"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

Leonardo da Vinci

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