80 Self-discipline Quotes to Boost Your Success Drive
Self-discipline is one of the major virtues of life and a key to success. It is the limelight that guards one's path in the journey towards accomplishing life goals, and the ability to stay focused and motivated even when the going gets tough. It is what separates the successful from the unsuccessful.
When you are self-disciplined, you have the power to achieve your goals and accomplish your dreams. An have more control of your own destiny.
No one said that the journey to success would be easy. In fact, it’s often quite the opposite. The path to success is full of challenges, obstacles, hindrances and temptations that can distract your focus. It’s easy to get sidetracked and give up when things get tough. But if you’re armed with self-discipline, you can overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal.
Self-discipline are often misunderstood for self-control. However, there is a slide difference between the two words. Self-discipline is the ability to control one's emotions, behavior, and desires in order to achieve a goal, while self-control is the ability to resist temptation and control one's impulses.
Also, while self-discipline is the practice of making decisions and taking actions that lead to the achievement of a goal, self-control is the ability to resist short-term temptations in favor of long-term goals. This implies that self-control is an element of self-discipline, and one needs both to stay on track while journeying towards a successful life.
To help you stay on track and reach your goals to success, we’ve compiled a list of the best self-discipline quotes of all time. These quotes will inspire you and give you more reasons to apply self-discipline in whatever you do in order to succeed in life.
Best Self-discipline Quotes to Speed Up Your Drive to Succeed
1. "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." – Jim Rohn.
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2. "The only discipline that lasts is
self-discipline." – B.C. Forbes
3. "The first and best victory is to conquer self."
– Plato
4. "You can never conquer the mountain. You can only
conquer yourself." – Jim Whittaker
5. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is
the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill
6. "Successful people are self-disciplined. They are
masters of their emotions, thoughts, and actions." – Brian Tracy
7. “We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret
and disappointment.” – Jim Rohn
8. "If you don’t discipline yourself, the world will do
it for you." – William Feather
9. "It is better to conquer yourself than to win a
thousand battles." – Buddha
10. "In the long run, self-discipline is stronger than
willpower." – Roy F. Baumeister
11. "Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from
laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others,
freedom from weakness and fear—and doubt." – H.A. Dorfman
12. "Self-discipline is a habit that you need to
cultivate if you want to succeed." – Robert Kiyosaki
13. "Discipline is the foundation upon which all
success is built." – Jim Rohn
14. "You can’t build a reputation on what you are going
to do." – Henry Ford
15. "If you don’t have self-discipline, you will never
achieve your goals." – Robert Kiyosaki
16. "Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small
numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all." –
George Washington
17. "Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do
what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or
not." – Unknown
18. "Self-discipline is the key to success. If you want
to be successful, you must develop the habit of doing what needs to be done,
even when you don’t feel like doing it." – Unknown
19. "Success is the result of good judgment, which is
the result of experience, which is the result of diligent and persistent
effort, which is the result of self-discipline." – Unknown
20. "Success is not always about greatness. It’s about
consistency, consistency, consistency." – Dwayne Johnson
21. “Without self-discipline, success is impossible,
period.” – Lou Holtz
22. “Self-discipline is the key to success.” – Unknown
23. “Be weary of days when you don’t feel like working,
because those are the days that you must work the hardest.” – Unknown
24. “The discipline of writing something down is the first
step toward making it happen.” – Lee Iacocca
25. “It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand
battles.” – Buddha
26. “Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard,
then succeed on purpose.” – G.K. Nielson
27. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the
courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
28. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly
in their abilities. They vary in how much they discipline themselves."- Unknown.
29. “The only person you are destined to become is the
person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. “Self-discipline is when your conscience tells you to do
something and you don’t talk back.” –W. K. Hope
31. “It’s not about denying yourself pleasure. It’s about
denying yourself the opportunity for future greater pleasures.” – Unknown
32. “Self-discipline is the power to make yourself do what
you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.” –
Unknown
33. “Self-discipline is the key to success. If you can
control yourself, you cannot control your life.” – Unknown
34. “By constant self-discipline and self-control, you can
develop greatness of character.” – Grenville Kleiser
35. “Successful people don’t make excuses; they make things
happen.” – Unknown
36. “If you want to make your dreams come true, you have to
be willing to work hard and be disciplined.” – Unknown
37. “Success is not something that comes overnight; it is
something that you must work hard for and stay disciplined.” – Unknown
38. “Success depends on effort.” – Sophocles
39. “You have to be consistent and disciplined to reach your
goals.” – Unknown
40. “It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The
question is: What are we busy about?” – Henry David Thoreau
41. “Successful people make decisions quickly and change their minds slowly.” – Robert Kiyosaki
42. “Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.” – Charles J. Givens
43. “The only way to achieve great things is through self-discipline.”
– Unknown
44. "Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people
with talent." –Anonymous
45. "The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge
to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to
personal excellence." –Confucius
46. "Self-discipline is the key to success.
Self-control is the key to unlocking your potential." –Anonymous
47. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as
you do not stop." –Confucius
48. "Without discipline, there’s no life at all."
–Katharine Hepburn
49. "The only way to achieve true success is to express
yourself completely in service to others." –Albert Schweitzer
50. "The difference between try and triumph is a little
umph." –Anonymous
and esteem to all." –George Washington
51. "Success is not a destination, it’s a
journey." –Anonymous
52. "Success is not achieved by chance, it is earned
through hard work and dedication." –Anonymous
53. "The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what
you are afraid to do." –Anonymous
54. "Success does not come from what you do
occasionally, but from what you do consistently." –Anonymous
55. “If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there
today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” – Thomas J.
Watson
56. “To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its
undoing.” – Eva Young
57. “Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your
thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do.”
– Napoleon Hill
58. “You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must
hammer and forge yourself one.” – James A. Froude
59. “The difference between a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
– Vince Lombardi
60. “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is
by going beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
61. “He who cannot obey himself will be commanded.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
62. “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” – Dwayne Johnson
63.“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has
mastered himself is mightier still.” – Lao Tzu
64. “You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking
about yesterday all the time.” – Charles F. Kettering
65. “The difference between successful people and
unsuccessful people is that successful people do all the things that
unsuccessful people don’t want to do.” – Joe Karbo
66. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the
job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied
the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi
67. “Successful people are not necessarily more intelligent
than others; they just use the resources they have more effectively.” – Brian
Tracy
68. “The successful warrior is the average man, with
laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
69. “Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It requires you to connect today’s actions to
tomorrow’s results. Self-discipline helps
you know which is which.” – Gary Ryan Blair
70. “Self-discipline is the magic key to unlock the doors to
a world of opportunities” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
71. “With self-discipline, most anything is possible.” ―
Theodore Roosevelt
72. “Self-discipline is the chief element of success.” ―
Samuel Smiles
73. "What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to
do." – Aristotle
74. “There is no easy way. There is only hard work, late
nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood,
toil, frustration, and discipline.” – Jocko Willink
75. "Success is nothing more than a few simple
disciplines, practiced every day." – Jim Rohn
76. “Discipline is the ability to control our conduct by
principle rather than by social pressure.” – Glenn C. Stewart.
77. “The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most
anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.” – Vince Lombardi
78. "It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you
can get yourself back." -Mick Jagger.
79. "Self-discipline is the master of all virtues of life that associate with success"- Abas Obot
80. Find what you love to do and go do it. You will never be successful until you have a plan, and discipline and the determination to go through with that plan. – Julius Williams
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Finally, if you are not trying to be a social media star and want to stay low key, just use free editing tools on the internet to make a nice visual out of your favorite quotes, print them out, maybe even frame them and hand them up on walls or place them at your desk. Just where you can see them as a reminder to stay motivated. Good luck!
Abas Obot
Abasiama Akpan (pen name: Abas Obot) is a creative writer who aims to inspire, inform and educate his audience. His major focus is on human capital development, forged by his educational background, passion, experience, and personal objectives. Founder: Inspired Scoop and Knowledge Trend Media. Social handle @Abasdgreat facebook twitter instagram linkedin email
