Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Self-Discipline Quotes

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"Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

Thomas Kempis

"Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases, and its toll on success and happiness is heavy"

Wayne Gretzky, Athlete

"I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?"

Christian Bale, Actor

Christian Bale

"I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it"

Christian Bale, Actor

Christian Bale

"Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances"

Orlando A. Battista, Author

"And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble"

Jason Statham, Actor

Jason Statham

"I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what's needed"

Jason Statham, Actor

Jason Statham

"The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors"

Bob Newhart, Comedian

"I've just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink and things like that. I think being conscious of it will help me to control the urges"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life"

Lynn Davies, Athlete

Lynn Davies

"Part of courage is simple consistency"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

Peggy Noonan

"I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes"

Courtney Love, Musician

"Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline"

Helen Hayes, Actress

"Religion, which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"Discipline your mind to think positively; to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event"

Roy T. Bennett, Writer

Roy T. Bennett

"There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance"

Jean Racine, Dramatist

"I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance"

Ken Burns, Director

Ken Burns

"The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours, and if he doesn't go to his desk at all, there is nobody to scold him"

Roald Dahl, Novelist

"Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear"

Bernard Law Montgomery, Soldier

"Prioritize and execute"

Jocko Willink, Soldier

Jocko Willink

"Take ownership of everything in your world. There is no one else to blame"

Jocko Willink, Soldier

Jocko Willink

"Don't count on motivation. Count on discipline"

Jocko Willink, Soldier

Jocko Willink

"The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term, in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success"

Blaine Lee, Author

Blaine Lee

"If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you"

Robert Anthony, Educator

"I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction"

Gene Tierney, Actress

Gene Tierney

"Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason"

Robert South, Clergyman

Robert South

"I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do"

Joan Jett, Musician

Joan Jett

"Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow"

Brigham Young, Leader

Brigham Young

"It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel"

James Allen, Author

"A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; and very hard the task I find of governing it well"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

Samuel Richardson

"It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets"

Wilma Rudolph, Athlete

"When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less"

Richard Armour, Poet

"I'd like to have no rules and eat what I want, but I've learned over the years that I'm so disappointed when I can't wear the clothes I want to wear"

Gwen Stefani, Musician

"I still party all the time and hang out with everyone who drinks, but I just don't personally, and don't really have the desire to get blitzed drunk any more"

Slash, Musician

Slash

"I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time"

Bjork, Musician

"He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion"

Johann Kaspar Lavater, Theologian

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