- “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
- True self-discipline is not for the weak-minded. In life we make too many excuses – I don’t live near a gym, don’t have the money for a trainer, my hours at work are crazy, I’m traveling too much, the kids schedules are too hectic, etc. The list is endless. Rather than giving yourself a way out, find a way to make “it” happen. David Goggins
- Impatience is a virtue. Self-discipline is another form of self-conflict. Find things that excite you. Naval Ravikant
- “أي أحمق بإستطاعته أن يكون سعيدا بدون هموم الدنيا, ولكن القوة النفسية التي تعطي السعادة الحقيقية,هي حين تسطيع ان تتملك الأشياء التي تبكيك وتحزنك وتسيطر على تأثيرها على حياتك….” ― Husam Wafaei, Honourable Defection
- “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
- Everyone says that no one gets to their deathbed and thinks, man I wish I worked more, but I don’t think anyone gets to their deathbed and says, man I’m glad I spent all that time skiing in Aspen. Ryan Holiday
- To understand success, pay less attention to the final product and more to the mundane process. […] The seeds of greatness are planted in the daily grind. Adam Grant
- Progress is the pursuit of better process. Jack Butcher
- 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
- “Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.” ― Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- Living an undisciplined life isn’t freedom. It’s the ultimate version of slavery. Fateh Singh
- “Everyone wants to get to the top but not everyone is willing to walk uphill.” ― Luigina Sgarro
- The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant. Do not be ruled by them. Bhagavad Gita
- The secret of successful working lies in the systemic arrangement of what you have to do. I know of no better way to accomplish a large amount of work. William Osler
- We are most free when we are under discipline. Free from being ruled by fleshly impulse and worldly desire. Thibaut
- If you want to win, practice virtue. If you win with virtue, your opponent buries himself. Awa Kenzô
- Love the discipline you know, and let it support you. Entrust everything willingly to the gods, and then make your way through life – no one’s master and no one’s slave. Marcus Aurelius
- The more disciplined your environment is, the less disciplined you need to be. Don’t swim upstream. James Clear
- Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. Robert Louis Stevenson
- What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. Osho
- “You can’t expect to achieve a dream if you don’t push yourself harder. Whether it’s strength training, or a sales goal at work, or anything. You’ve got to push through past what you think you can do. And when you do it, it builds confidence in you, and your next task will have a momentum to it. The confidence gained makes your output exponential. You have already done something you thought was impossible. Now you are waiting for the next impossible task.” ― Josh Hatcher
- Every action you take is kind of like a vote for the kind of person you want to become. James Clear
- Freedom is not the ability to do as we please. Freedom is the ability to do as we ought. Adam Chilcott
- Discipline is money in the bank. Henry Rollins (Get in the Van)
- “the way to change the entire world starts with a small baby step” ― Manuel Corazzari
- Learn to convert the discomfort of discipline into the satisfaction of personal growth. Tony Robbins
- “You can’t make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn’t made them wish they had.” ― Marshall B. Rosenberg
- Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today. Benjamin Franklin
- Focus is free but distractions cost you everything. Thibaut
- “If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist.” ― Neil Gaiman