Discipline Quotes

Talent starts things; discipline finishes them. These 25 discipline quotes are about showing up on the boring days, doing the unglamorous work and trusting the process. No shortcuts here — just the steady truth about how good things get built.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. — Swami Vivekananda
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.
Swami Vivekananda
Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck. — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world. — Abdul Sattar Edhi
My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world.
Abdul Sattar Edhi
Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi
Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. — B.R. Ambedkar
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
B.R. Ambedkar
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. — Confucius
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Confucius
In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles. — David Ben-Gurion
In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.
David Ben-Gurion
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions: Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead. — Chanakya
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions: Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
Chanakya
Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. — Chanakya
Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it.
Chanakya
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. — Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Wilde
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. — Sun Tzu
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun Tzu
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself. — Plato
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.
Plato
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. — Sun Tzu
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
Sun Tzu
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. — Booker T. Washington
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Booker T. Washington
We are the first generation to be able to end poverty, and the last generation that can take steps to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. — Ban Ki-moon
We are the first generation to be able to end poverty, and the last generation that can take steps to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
Ban Ki-moon
Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. — Ban Ki-moon
Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all.
Ban Ki-moon
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' — Muhammad Ali
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
Muhammad Ali
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