The body and the mind can sometimes feel separate from each other. There are times we cannot overcome our baser urges, be it sleep, the need to eat, the desire to make a purchase, or similar scenarios. The problem in these cases often turns out to be discipline.
Discipline often boils down to one’s ability to adhere to a strict plan or a set of rules. A big example is attempting to take on the habit of waking early. This can seem impossible on the first day, but consistency is critical when developing discipline. Rome wasn’t made overnight.
A great obstacle for building strong discipline is understanding your strengths and weaknesses. Different people excel at different things, and by understanding this, one can effectively plan for their weakness. The period of growing your self-discipline is bound to go smoother if you prepare ahead of time for any possible hiccups.
Another big part of creating a strong sense of self-discipline is not placing yourself in tempting situations. There is a great chance you will go back to your old habits if this isn’t done correctly.
As I mentioned earlier, Rome wasn’t built in a day. You’re bound to make mistakes along the way, but it helps to set realistic goals you can work toward. It helps to start in moderation. It also helps pair the cleansing of old habits and restructuring your discipline with developing new, healthier habits. This gives you something to focus on instead of working in a vacuum.
The biggest step to improving discipline is understanding that you are stronger than you give yourself credit for. The human mind is powerful and can mold and be reshaped with enough effort and willpower. There’s no room for self-doubt on your journey to developing rock-solid self-discipline.
A great way to work on your self-discipline is by learning from others on the same journey. There’s a lot of experience to be gained by listening to others. Your friends and close family can be an instrumental tool on your journey, and you should take full advantage of them while you can.
Discipline Quotes
Another source of inspiration and guidance comes from the quotes we have collected for your viewing pleasure. They each tackle different discipline principles and concepts. Enjoy!
1. “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.
2. “We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
-Jim Rohn.
3. “Rule your mind or it will rule you.”
-Horace.
4. “An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.”
-Brian Tracy.
5. “Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.”
-M. Scott Peck
6. “Through discipline comes freedom.”
-Aristotle.
7. “Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.”
-Mike Ditka.
8. “No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want.”
-Pablo.
9. “Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process.”
-M. Scott Peck.
10. “Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank.”
-Mike Ditka.
11. “Discipline is remembering what you want.”
-David Campbell.
12. “Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.”
-Lal Bahadur Shastri.
13. “It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.”
-Mick Jagger.
14. “Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.”
-Roy L. Smith.
15. “With faith, discipline, and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.”
-Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
16. “Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.”
-Haile Gebrselassie.
17. “I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.”
-Dave Ramsey.
18. “Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.”
-Michel De Montaigne.
19. “Discipline is doing what you really don’t want to do so you can do what you really want to do.”
-Jeff Fisher.
20. “Confidence comes from discipline and training.”
-Robert Kiyosaki.
21. “Without hard work and discipline, it is difficult to be a top professional.”
-Jahangir Khan.
22. “It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.”
-Alexis Ohanian.
23. “Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates.”
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
24. “Failure is nothing more than the inevitable outcome of a few small acts of daily neglect performed consistently over time so that they take you past the point of no return.”
-Robin Sharma.
25. “Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.”
-Roy Baumeister.
26. “Self-discipline begins with the mastery of thought.”
-Napoleon Hill.
27. “Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.”
-John C. Maxwell.
28. “Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It requires you to connect today’s actions to tomorrow’s results. There’s a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.”
-Gary Ryan Blair.
29. “Success is created through the performance of a few small daily disciplines that stack up over time to produce achievements far beyond anything you could of ever planned for. Failure, on the other hand, is just as easy to slip into.”
-Robin Sharma.
30. “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.
31. “Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance.”
-Khaled Hosseini.
32. “I’ve learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.”
-Jake Gyllenhaal.
33. “As long as you have discipline, you can be a success. Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do.”
-Anthony Joshua.
34. “Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.”
-George Washington.
35. “Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do.”
-Anthony Joshua.
36. “Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift… But to live your life, you must discipline it.”
-Florence Nightingale.
37. “Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone’s watching or not.”
-Michael J. Fox.
39. “Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.”
-Nipsey Hussle.
40. “As long as you have discipline, you can be a success.”
-Anthony Joshua.
41. “Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.”
-Patrick Lencioni.
42. “Believe in yourself, and find ways to express yourself, and find the discipline to keep growing.”
-Michael Feinstein.
45. “Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.”
-Esther Williams.
48. “A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.”
-Jacqueline Bisset.
50. “There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.”
-Jim Mattis.
51. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”
-Stephen Covey.
52. “Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.”
-Lou Holtz.
53. “Art can’t be taught; passion can’t be taught; discipline can’t be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.”
-Elizabeth George.
54. “There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline.”
-Jose Eduardo dos Santos.
55. “It’s just a matter of understanding what’s necessary and discipline yourself to do it.”
-Arthur Lydiard.
56. “It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.”
-Zig Ziglar.
57. “I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they’re my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.”
-John Cena.
58. “Discipline isn’t about showing a dog who’s boss; it’s about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.”
-Cesar Millan.
59. “Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire.”
-John MacArthur Jr.
60. “Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.”
-Julie Andrews.
61. “Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.”
-Thucydides.
62. “True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
-Mortimer J. Adler.
63. “The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.”
-Bum Phillips.
64. “It’s about discipline. It’s about following instructions. It’s about the execution of the plan. That’s what sport is.”
-Ian Millar.
65. “Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.”
-W. E. B. Du Bois.
66. “In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.”
-Daniel Goleman.
67. “I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.”
-Jack LaLanne.
68. “Without discipline, there’s no life at all.”
-Katharine Hepburn.
69. “Work hard. Through determination and self-focus and discipline, you can accomplish anything.”
-Kimberly Guilfoyle.
70. “Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.”
-Henry Moore.
71. “Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.”
-Brian Reynolds Myers.
72. “In fitness, there are no shortcuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.”
-Mahesh Babu.
73. “Let’s not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can’t have high standards without good discipline.”
-William Hague.
74. “I think good work, sincerity, and discipline speak for themselves.”
-Dia Mirza.
75. “Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It’s really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.”
-Sebastian Thrun.
76. “You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.”
-Haile Gebrselassie.
77. “The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.”
-Bill Nye.
78. “If I couldn’t have discipline, if I sit up eatin’ fried chicken in bed at night, I’d just as soon be dead. I take care of myself.”
-Jim Brown.
79. “I think there’s some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.”
-Alan Rickman.
80. “Talent is nothing without dedication and discipline, and dedication and discipline is a talent in itself.”
-Luke Campbell.
81. “Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation.”
-Mark Walport.
82. “You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.”
-Tertullian.
83. “Writing the perfect paper is a lot like a military operation. It takes discipline, foresight, research, strategy, and, if done right, ends in total victory.”
-Ryan Holiday.
84. “The country needs fiscal discipline to build a strong economy and for social justice.”
-Smriti Irani.
85. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
–Jim Rohn.
86. “A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.”
–Dalai Lama.
87. “Discipline is the foundation of happiness and the uttermost requirement for success.”
-Unknown*.
88. “Indiscipline is the major pillar on which a procrasdemon stands still.”
-Neeraj Agnihotri.
89. “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.
90. “The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.”
-Matthew Kelly.
91. “True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.”
-Charles Eisenstein.
92. “Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.”
-Nathaniel Branden
93. “If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist.”
-Neil Gaiman.
94. “Discipline yourself and others won’t need to.”
-John Wooden.
95. “Self-control is the key to self-esteem and self-confidence.”
–Laurance McGraw V.
96. “With self-discipline most anything is possible.”
-Theodore Roosevelt.
97. “He who lives without discipline dies without honor.”
– Icelandic proverb.
98. “Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a disciplined or undisciplined state of mind.”
-Dalai Lama.
99. “Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”
-Abraham Joshua Heschel.
100. “For every disciplined effort, there are multiple rewards. That’s one of life’s great arrangements. If you sow well, you will reap well.”
– Jim Rohn.
101. “You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.”
― John C. Maxwell, ‘The 15 Invaluable Laws Of Growth: Live Them And Reach Your Potential’.