- “DisciplineI am old and I have hadmore than my share of good and bad. I’ve had love and sorrow, seen sudden deathand been left alone and of love bereft. I thought I would never love againand I thought my life was grief and pain. The edge between life and death was thin, but then I discovered discipline. I learned to smile when I felt sad, I learned to take the good and the bad, I learned to care a great deal morefor the world about me than before. I began to forget the “Me” and “I”and joined in life as it rolled by: this may not mean sheer ecstasybut is better by far than “I” and “Me.” ― Meryl Gordon
- The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus. Robert Greene (Mastery)
- Do the best one can. Do it over again. Then still improve, even if ever so slightly, those retouches. Marguerite Yourcenar
- Silence is essential. It’s a tool, a sign of wisdom, a sign of self-control and self-discipline. It can be, in some cases, more courageous and fair to bite your tongue than it is to flap it. Ryan Holiday
- “You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.” ― Michael Chabon
- Discipline will take you to places where motivation can’t. Unknown
- It’s not that change is hard. It’s that not changing is easier. Ed Latimore
- The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant. Do not be ruled by them. Bhagavad Gita
- You will ascend to the level of your discipline. You will fall to the level of your apathy. Alexander J.A Cortes
- Do what the person you want to be would do. Sahil Lavingia
- “All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.” ― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
- There’s no excuse. David Goggins
- “A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
- We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. Jim Rohn
- When you know what matters to you, it’s a lot easier to ignore what doesn’t. Shane Parrish (@ShaneAParrish)
- One thousand days of lessons for discipline; ten thousand days of lessons for mastery. Miyamoto Musashi
- It shows greater self-control to refuse to withdraw oneself, and to do the same things as the crowd, but in a different way. Seneca
- Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint. James Russell Lowell
- Curb your desire – don’t set your heart on so many things and you will get what you need. Epictetus
- All of your energy should go into building better rituals, not chasing better results. James Clear
- First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit is persistence in practice. Octavia Butler
- Obsession without self-control leads to self-destruction. Bill Masur
- “Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.” ― Bill Ayers
- “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” ― Plato
- Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive. George Bernard Shaw
- If you want to win, practice virtue. If you win with virtue, your opponent buries himself. Awa Kenzô
- Beware the barrenness of a busy life. Socrates
- Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition. W.H. Auden
- “No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Here’s a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn’t stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5.3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on “Bright Eyes.”4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank.5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13.6) Nadia Comăneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14.7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950, at the age of 15.8) Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil.9) Elvis was a superstar by age 19.10) John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in 1961.11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936.12) Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 2313) Issac Newton wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 2414) Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record15) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity16) Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France 17) Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures “David” and “Pieta” by age 2818) Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world19) J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry Potter20) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean21) Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind22) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest23) Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech “I Have a Dream.”24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics 25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world’s first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today are worth millions.27) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon.28) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, and 49 years old when he wrote “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”29) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas30) Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus driver’s order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger31) John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the United States32) Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out.33) Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote “The Hunger Games”34) Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out.35) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa.36) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president.37) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels.38) Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote “The Cat in the Hat”.40) Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. All of the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived41) Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise42) J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out43) Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US44) Jack Lalane at age 70 handcuffed, shackled, towed 70 rowboats45) Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became President” ― Pablo
- As a society moves from scarcity to abundance, the cultural value that is most likely to be underdeveloped is restraint. Michael (@mmay3r)