Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Discipline Quotes

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"Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

Marilyn vos Savant

"Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

Marilyn vos Savant

"Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

Cesare Pavese

"The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist

Alexis Carrel

"Always do one thing less than you think you can do"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

Bernard Baruch

"In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

Bernard Baruch

"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside!"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

Wayne Dyer

"My ambition is handicapped by laziness"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it"

Peter Marshall, Clergyman

Peter Marshall

"Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

Bryant H. McGill

"There isn't much I have to say that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do"

Ani DiFranco, Musician

Ani DiFranco

"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

Earl Nightingale

"You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

Pearl S. Buck

"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

Pearl S. Buck

"There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs - they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once!"

Walter Scott, Novelist

Walter Scott

"I am a temperance Republican down to my toes"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

Billy Sunday

"It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives"

Clint Eastwood, Actor

Clint Eastwood

"Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

Lord Chesterfield

"I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

Lord Chesterfield

"I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

Lord Chesterfield

"There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself"

Louis XIV, Royalty

Louis XIV

"There is a high cost for low living"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

Edwin Louis Cole

"Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life"

Doug Coupland, Author

Doug Coupland

"Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do"

Mencius, Philosopher

Mencius

"Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others"

Mencius, Philosopher

Mencius

"No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined"

Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman

"People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves"

Robert Collier, Author

Robert Collier

"If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... Break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time"

Robert Collier, Author

Robert Collier

"Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

Saint Teresa of Avila

"Be gentle to all and stern with yourself"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

Saint Teresa of Avila

"I'm against having emotions, not against using them"

Harvey Specter, Actor

Harvey Specter

"Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives"

Tony Robbins, Author

Tony Robbins

"The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"Whatever happens, take responsibility"

Tony Robbins, Author

Tony Robbins

"The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery"

Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian

"He who keeps his cool best wins"

Norman Cousins, Author

"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them"

Jack Kerouac, Novelist

"I don't think I have ever been out of control"

Bobby Knight, Coach

Bobby Knight

"I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master"

Antonio Porchia, Poet

Antonio Porchia

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