Quotes about Discipline
Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.
— Nelson Mandela
Football helped me tremendously, and that's why I want the sport to stay because it's so valuable. It's helped me be a better physician today, certainly. I've learned discipline. I've learned focus, teamwork, communication.
— Myron Rolle
She had a hard time to keep from running.
— Janette Oke
Condition comes from hard work during practice and proper mental and moral conduct between practices.
— John Wooden
Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.
— Norman Vincent Peale
So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.
— Graham Greene
If you go to bed at 10:00 and get up by 6:00 A.M., things will work out for you.
— Gordon Hinckley
Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.
— John Updike
We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.
— Marina Abramovic
Laziness means more work in the long run.
— CS Lewis
The principles always work if you work the principles.
— Jack Canfield
Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.
— John Maxwell