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QUOTES ON SELF-DISCIPLINE

  1.  “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself and be lenient to everybody else.” – Henry Ward Beecher
2.      “Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need and want for short-term gains (immediate gratification), which often leads to long-term pain.” – Charles F. Glassman

3.      “If you wouldn’t follow yourself, why should anyone else?” – John C. Maxwell

4.      “He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world.” – Thomas Hughes

5.      “No person is free who is not master of himself.” – Epictetus

6.      “Self-discipline is nothing but self-consciousness.” – Pearl Zhu

7.      “Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demand others, freedom from weakness and fear – and doubt.” – H.A. Dorfman

8.      “With self-discipline, self study is possible.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

9.      “He that has no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.” – Proverbs 25:28

10.  “Do first what you don’t want to do most.” – Clifford Cohen

11.  “The first and best victory is to conquer self.” – Plato

12.  “Talent without discipline like an octopus on roller skates. There is plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards or sideways.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

13.  “A man without decision of character can never be said to belong to himself… He belongs to whatever can make captive of him.” – John Foster

14.  “If we don’t discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.” – William Feather

15.  “Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.” – Lao Tzu

16.  “Rule your mind or it will rule you.” – Horace

17.  “Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.” – Vince Lombardi

18.  “Success is actually a short race – a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.” – Gary Keller

19.  “The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.” – Vince Lombardi

20.  “Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.” – Winston Churchill 


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