Quotes for Discipline

Quotes for Discipline

"People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practcing it until they become proficient at it." ~ Brian Tracy


"No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined." ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

"The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline." ~ Bum Phillips

"A colt is worth little if it does not break its halter." ~ Proverb

"Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority." ~ Bertrand Russell

"He who lives without discipline dies without honor." ~ Icelandic Proverb

"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you." ~ Rob Gilbert

"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others." ~ Tyron Edwards

"No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character." ~ John S. Bonnell

"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self." ~ Napoleon Hill