We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
— Jesse Owens
Valuable Self Discipline quotations
The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life.
Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent.
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!
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.
Respect your efforts, respect yourself.
Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.
If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline
Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless.
Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline.
Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and excellence of Christ. They overcome the world by seeing something more attractive than the world: Christ
Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.
To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah).
Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self.
If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.
Don't wait for a more convenient day to discipline your mind!
Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service.
If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.
He that cannot obey, cannot command.
Sports can do so much. They've given me a framework: meeting new people, confidence, self-esteem, discipline, motivation. All these things I learned, whether I knew I was learning them or not, through sports.
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates
What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.
Through discipline comes freedom.
When you get in taekwondo, it teaches you the life skills of respect, self control, discipline-that's why I love it. I really attribute those skills to really getting over my dad's death. If I didn't have that, I would have lost it.
The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
Self-discipline is a form of freedom.
Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear-and doubt. Self-discipline allows a pitcher to feel his individuality, his inner strength, his talent. He is master of, rather than a slave to, his thoughts and emotions.
I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.
..the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.