Self-discipline Quotes

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. (Harry S. Truman)
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. View quote
Clint Eastwood
It is time to return to those core values, time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on other people and the state. View quote
John Major
With self-discipline most anything is possible. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now. View quote
Amy Chua
All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you. View quote
Dwayne Johnson
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. View quote
Theodor Adorno
Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish. View quote
Bruce Lee
It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture. View quote
Hans Hofmann
Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful whenever we choose - a theory that many poor hypochondriacs are taunted with till they are nigh driven mad - yet, on the other hand, no sane mind is ever left without the power of self-discipline and self-control in a measure, which measure increases in proportion as it is exercised. View quote
Dinah Craik
Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting. (Julia Ward Howe)
Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command. View quote
Steven Pressfield
There can be no doubt that the youth of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization. Five social diseases surround them, even in early childhood. There is the decline in fitness due to modern methods of locomotion; the decline in initiative due to the widespread disease of spectatoritis; the decline in care and skill due to the weakened tradition of craftsmanship; the decline in self-discipline due to the ever-present availability of tranquilizers and stimulants, and the decline in compassion, which William Temple called "spiritual death." View quote
Kurt Hahn
Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Real peace comes only to those who control the body and mind with self-discipline. View quote
Vishnudevananda Saraswati
The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline. View quote
Bum Phillips
I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets. View quote
Daniel Goldstein
If you set goals for yourself, and you're like a lot of other people, you probably realize it's not that your goals are physically impossible that's keeping you from achieving them; it's that you lack the self-discipline to stick to them. It's physically possible to lose weight. It's physically possible to exercise more. View quote
Daniel Goldstein
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. View quote
Grenville Kleiser
I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child. (George Hamilton)
Being home schooled is awesome because you can make your own schedule, so as far as time management, it's up to you how much you get done and when you get it done. It's all got to get done; how you do it is up to you. You need a lot of self-discipline, but luckily, I have it. View quote
Jason Dolley
The Dalai Lama's entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those are qualities to be admired. I am really looking forward to meeting His Holiness. View quote
Joe Nichols
The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do. View quote
John Hurt
One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline. View quote
Siobhan Davies