Quotes about discipline

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

The road to hell feels like heaven. The road to heaven often feels like hell.

Laziness kills consistency. Comfort kills consistency. Doubt kills consistency. Fear kills consistency. Now read that again, right to left.

The greatest skill you can learn is to stay in a good mood when there are 100s of reasons not to.

If you're looking for reasons not to do it, do it. If you're looking for reasons to do it, don't do it.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by the corresponding actions.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

If you wish to improve, be content to appear foolish and stupid regarding externals.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

The superior man has neither anxiety nor fear. When internal examination discovers nothing wrong, what is there to be anxious about, what is there to fear?

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.

There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Using no way as way; having no limitation as limitation.

Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.

Be detached from desire your whole life long.

As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind.

To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind — this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them.

When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shun the being seen to do it, even though the world should make a wrong supposition about it.

Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

The lion who breaks the enemy’s ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: Every success depends upon focusing the heart.

He whose intellect overcomes his desire is higher than the angels; he whose desire overcomes his intellect is less than an animal.

The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort.

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Any one can get angry — that is easy — but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.

I can resist everything except temptation.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Have the courage to use your own understanding; this is the motto of the Enlightenment.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.