Self-discipline 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.
- Napoleon Hill
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
- Jim Rohn
It takes discipline and compassion
to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough
to recognize the divine in another.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates.
There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward,
backwards, or sideways.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
- Theodore Roosevelt
In speech, in anger, in spending, in greed, and in food,
self restraint leads to success, true friends, and a joyful being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life
Daily Renewal
Break Old Patterns of Action
Self Discipline
Courage
Keep Going
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen?
Then prepare to accept it.
Then proceed to improve on the worst.
- Dale Carnegie
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today's affirmation:
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Émile Coué
Further reading:
Simply Do Your Best
Daily Habits
Climb Every Mountain
Daily Motivation
No one is in control of your happiness but you
Try Daily Journaling
Self Improvement
Self Esteem
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
- Jim Rohn
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.
- Napoleon Hill
It takes discipline and compassion
to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough
to recognize the divine in another.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates.
There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward,
backwards, or sideways.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Further reading:
Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life
How to Motivate Yourself
Never Quit
Be Unstoppable
Perseverance
Consistent physical structures can allow unbounded intuitive clarity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits. When I set my keys in the place I, with practice, always set my keys…I do not lose them. In many instances an ordered external structure can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered, creative and unbounded inner structure.
