Discipline can mean different things depending on the context, but at its core, it generally refers to the ability to control one’s actions, thoughts, and emotions to achieve a specific goal or adhere to a set of rules or standards. It involves self-control, consistency, and commitment to a particular course of action, even when faced with obstacles or distractions. Discipline can manifest in various aspects of life, including personal habits, work ethic, academic pursuits, and relationships. It’s often associated with traits like perseverance, focus, and responsibility.
Discipline Quotes
1. “Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.”
— John C. Maxwell
2. “Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”
— Elbert Hubbard
3. “Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.”
— Darrin Patrick
4. “Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.”
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
5. “If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline.”
— Lee Kuan Yew
6. “Confidence comes from discipline and training.”
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
7. “The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.”
— William Arthur Ward
8. “Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.”
— John C. Maxwell
9. “Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons.”
— Jim Rohn
10. “All freedom comes from discipline.”
— Anne Lamott
11. “Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.”
— Jim Rohn
12. “You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life.”
— Zig Ziglar
13. “Self-respect leads to self-discipline.”
— Clint Eastwood
14. “I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.”
— Nikola Tesla
15. “Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.”
— Brian Tracy
16. “Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!”
— Zig Ziglar
17. “Remember that all success is based on long-term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way.”
— Jim Rohn
18. “We don’t drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.”
— Andy Stanley
19. “Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.”
— Jeanette Winterson
20. “Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action.”
— Bob Proctor
21. “Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.”
— Brian Tracy
22. “Without discipline, there’s no life at all.”
— Katharine Hepburn
23. “Discipline must come through liberty.”
— Maria Montessori
24. “Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.”
— Sophia Loren
25. “One discipline always leads to another discipline.”
— Jim Rohn
26. “Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself; ‘Are all the disciplines that I’m currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?’”
— Jim Rohn
27. “It’s a new day, a new beginning for your new life. With discipline you will be amazed at how much progress you’ll be able to make. What have you got to lose except the guilt and fear of the past?”
— Jim Rohn
28. “The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.”
— Napoleon Hill
29. “Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.”
— Sun Ra
30. “The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.”
— Brian Tracy
31. “No one likes to fail. But we mortals do not become champions without effort and discipline or without making mistakes.”
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
32. “Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”
— Warren Buffett
33. “God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!”
— Joyce Meyer
34. “Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life.”
— Charlotte Mason
35. “If it turns out that my best wasn’t good enough, at least I won’t look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.”
— Michael Jordan
36. “With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.”
— Horace
37. “A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.”
— Alan Turing
38. “The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.”
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
39. “Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.”
— Maria Montessori
40. “The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.”
— George Orwell
41. “All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.”
— Robert McKee
42. “NOBODY CARES. WORK HARDER.”
— QuoteFancy
43. “Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline.”
— Jocko Willink
44. “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
— Bruce Lee
45. “Discipline equals freedom.”
— Jocko Willink
46. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
— Aristotle
47. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
— Jim Rohn
48. “Today I will do what others won’t so tomorrow I can do what others can’t.”
— Jerry Rice
49. “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.”
— Jim Rohn
50. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.””
— Muhammad Ali
51. “No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.”
— Charlie Munger
