“Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.”— Clint Eastwood, imdb.com
“For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com
“A long-term strategy I have for staying disciplined and motivated is to keep learning about the ways in which my mind and body have been damaged from trillions of dollars of advertisements, thousands of synthetic compounds, multigenerational malnourishment, an unnatural microbiome, and other things…”— Tao Lin, thecreativeindependent.com
“Discipline eliminates complexity. Everyday, you make micro and macro decisions. If you reduce the number of decisions you need to make daily, you have more freedom.”— James Altucher, thoughtcatalog.com
“Discipline never works long term. Never. What works is when you become addicted to something positively new. You trade one addiction for another. You shift from having to do something, to wanting to do something.”— Tony Robbins, youtube.com
“If you work out regularly and stick to a schedule, you not only build good habits, you build discipline.”— Kovie Biakolo, thoughtcatalog.com
“Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“If you really want something you don’t stop for anyone or anything until you get it.”— Blair Waldorf, amazon.com
“We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.”— Kavita N. Ramdas, mtholyoke.edu
“Fuck motivation. it’s a fickle and and unreliable little dickfuck and isn’t worth your time. Better to cultivate discipline than to rely on motivation. force yourself to do things. force yourself to get up out of bed and practice. Force yourself to work. Motivation is fleeting and it’s easy to rely…”— Anonymous, thereallimegreenandloki.tumblr.com
“It is not punishment that gives discipline its authority, but it is punishment that prevents discipline from losing its authority.”— Emile Durkheim, amazon.com
“Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.”— Michael J Fox, books.google.com
“The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned.”— Steven Pressfield, amazon.com
“I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“My own style of conducting business is straightforward. I think big. I aim very high, and then I keep pushing and pushing toward that goal—and beyond it. In the end I may not get everything I want—I understand that—but I never compromise on the basic goals I set out for.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com