- It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city. Jordan Peterson (12 Rules for Life)
- “Everyone wants to get to the top but not everyone is willing to walk uphill.” ― Luigina Sgarro
- Living an undisciplined life isn’t freedom. It’s the ultimate version of slavery. Fateh Singh
- “…[I]ron discipline does not preclude but presupposes criticism and contest of opinion within the Party. Least of all does it mean that discipline must be ‘blind’. On the contrary, iron discipline does not preclude but presupposes conscious and voluntary submission, for only conscious discipline can be truly iron discipline.” ― Joseph Stalin
- Discipline comes from needs, not wants. Jack Butcher
- In the end, you win through superior craftsmanship, not marketing. Robert Greene
- Good habits are personal capital. They require investment, but many pay off 1000X over a lifetime. Michael (@mmay3r)
- Nothing is stronger than habit. Ovid
- If there isn’t discipline, how can there be a true realization of an ideal? Miyamoto Musashi
- May even your hobbies improve your mind and body, and move you further away from the degenerate state of constant consumption. Ed Latimore
- Focus is free but distractions cost you everything. Thibaut
- The fact that you go to the gym even though you don’t “need” to is why you don’t need to. The fact that you save when you could spend is why you have money to spend. Your habits create your strength. James Clear
- Excess in anything becomes a fault. Seneca
- It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one’s mind is the essence of the Buddha’s teaching. 14th Dalai Lama
- If I don’t have a project, I don’t have any discipline. Marina Abramovic
- “Success is a mindset and not a point in time but an inbuilt combination of character, discipline, behaviors and set of principles that make who the person becomes” ― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua
- “Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a mother. [. . .] The will-parent must discipline the mind-child, avoiding both the opposite extremes commonly made in disciplining either children or thoughts: tyranny or permissiveness.” ― Peter Kreeft, Prayer For Beginners
- “The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.” ― Matthew Kelly, Rediscover Catholicism
- “She kept her eyes on her book and tried to fix her mind. It had lately occurred to her that her mind was a good deal of a vagabond, and she had spent much ingenuity in training it to a military step and teaching it to advance, to halt, to retreat, to perform even more complicated maneuvers, at the word of command. Just now she had given it marching orders and it had been trudging over the sandy plains of a history of “German Thought” ― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
- Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you. Brian Tracy
- “If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.” ― Russell Banks
- The disciplined man will ultimately win. Unknown (Submitted by the Wisdom Quotes Community)
- Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity. Rabindranath Tagore
- “Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert agent, professions that require a great deal of bravery and risk and putting oneself in grave danger in order to complete the mission. Even though I did not become all those things, and unless my predisposition, in its youngest years, already had me leaning towards them, the interest that was there still shaped my philosophies. To this day I honor risk and sacrifice for the good of others – my views on life and love are heavily influenced by this.” ― Criss Jami, Healology
- Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. Robert Louis Stevenson
- “It is loo late in the day to say, “bye bye” to the discipline regime I instituted sometime ago. I have never been deceived to think it would be easy. But here I am about to back out – about to bow to the pleasure of the moment and fritter away the gains of the past months. Lord, with my last breath, I say, “No”. I know the discipline of today is the joy of tomorrow.” ― Abiodun Fijabi
- In walking about as you take care not to step on a nail or to sprain your foot, so take care not to damage your own ruling faculty: and if we observe this rule in every act, we shall undertake the act with more security. Epictetus (Enchiridion)
- “the bigger the price the harder it takes to win it” ― Manuel Corazzari
- Good habits are assets. Bad habits are liabilities. What’s in your portfolio? Jack Butcher
- I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control. Tim Ferriss