Famous Quotations On Discipline

Are you doing anything about your dreams? Here are some famous quotations on the importance of discipline:

Working on your dreams requires discipline. It is what will help you to say no to distractions and enable you to delay gratification. This means doing the hard work now in order that you enjoy the rewards of that work later.

Above all, self-discipline is most important. Self discipline is personal leadership. It means conquering yourself and requires self-analysis in order that you change those things that are in the way of your success and build up on those that will help you reach greater heights.

Discipline also means requiring nothing but the utmost best of yourself. You have to strive for personal excellence in everything you do. You have to strive to be the winner you were born to be.

Get inspired by these great famous quotations:

“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.”

George Washington

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first."

Harry S. Truman

“Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.”

Jim Rohn

“Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is a slave to his own weaknesses.”

Alan Valentine

“No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.”

Harry Fosdick

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

Napoleon Hill

"Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities."

Bertrand Russell

“Discipline - Success doesn't just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.”

John Maxwell

"Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action."

Vince Lombardi

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