Discipline Quotes

People who are successful in life exert discipline every day. Although discipline is a concept that everyone knows about, very few truly understand what it means and its importance. A person who is disciplined follows the rules and behaves appropriately wherever they go. Can you imagine a world without any discipline? It’s going to be a total chaos. Without discipline, we will not have great and inspiring leaders, award-winning actors and actresses, successful businessmen, and we won’t be able to raise well-mannered kids to make a difference today and in the future. When we constantly practice restraint, we prevent arguments from happening. If we do not give into something we want right away, we strengthen ourselves as well. Discipline will help us make the right decisions in life regardless of the many temptations that we will encounter during the process.

A roller skater, for example, won’t be able to successfully demonstrate the right movements without discipline. He has to practice day and night to perfect his moves and that certainly requires discipline. On the other hand, if a parent disciplines his child, more likely that child will grow up obedient and respectful to others. In other words, discipline brings stability and structure. It promotes good human behavior and makes people become considerate of each other. It’s the reason why there is peace in one’s household and within the society in general.

If you’re still looking for the deeper meaning of discipline, take a look at these discipline quotes we prepared just for you. May you always practice discipline so that you can live a fulfilling and peaceful life!

Discipline Quotes

1. I think there’s some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom. – Alan Rickman

 

2. Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a ‘physics’ or ‘anatomy’ of power, a technology. – Michel Foucault

3. Our school not only makes you an actor, it makes you understand who you actually are as well… it gives you discipline and punctuality. It also teaches you a way of life. – Anupam Kher

4. Modeling, it’s being an artist as well. It’s just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline. – Jessica White

 

5. It takes more discipline than you might imagine thinking, even for thirty seconds, in the noisy, confusing, high-pressure atmosphere of a film set. But a few seconds’ thought can often prevent a serious mistake being made about something that looks good at first glance. – Stanley Kubrick

6. Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength. – Lao Tzu

7. You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine. – Tertullian

8. The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. – John Steinbeck

9. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn

10. To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. – Buddha

11. The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable. – Buddha

12. You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred. – Buddha

13. Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation. – Buddha

14. There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind. – Buddha

15. The discipline which I have imparted to you will lead you when I am gone. Practice mindfulness diligently, to attain the goal of awakening. – Buddha

16. To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech — this is the greatest blessing. – Buddha

17. A disciplined mind brings happiness. – Buddha

18. Confidence comes from discipline and training. – Robert Kiyosaki

 

 

19. Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there. – Haile Gebrselassie

20. Without hard work and discipline, it is difficult to be a top professional. – Jahangir Khan

21. It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time. – Alexis Ohanian

22. Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. – Roy L. Smith

23. In fitness, there are no shortcuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work. – Mahesh Babu

24. Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forgo sleep. A penchant for sadomasochism. Ability to weather crises of faith and self-confidence. Accept exhaustion as fact of life. Addiction to caffeine a definite plus. Unfailing optimism that the end is in sight. – Khaled Hosseini

25. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. – Calvin Coolidge

26. The discipline of desire is the background of the character. – John Locke

27. Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. – George Washington

28. Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference. – Lou Holtz

29. Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual. – Robert Baden-Powell

30. With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

31. Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork – all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur. – Darell Hammond

32. The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It’s to have the discipline when there are so many competing things. – Alexa Hirschfeld

33. The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself. – Bo Bennett

34. We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. – Jim Rohn

35. Writing the perfect paper is a lot like a military operation. It takes discipline, foresight, research, strategy, and, if done right, ends in total victory. – Ryan Holiday

36. It was the character that got us out of bed, the commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. – Zig Ziglar

37. Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful. – John C. Maxwell

38. Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. – Jim Rohn

39. I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them. – Joyce Meyer

40. I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don’t want to do. – Wynton Marsalis

41. I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us. – Dave Ramsey

42. Discipline yourself, and others won’t need to. – John Wooden

43. There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim. – James Mattis

44. My diabetes is such a central part of my life it did teach me discipline… it also taught me about moderation. I’ve trained myself to be super-vigilant… because I feel better when I am in control. – Sonia Sotomayor

 

45. Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. – Stephen Covey

46. Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

47. Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence. – Patrick Lencioni

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

49. The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team. – Jocko Willink

50. The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all. – Bill Nye

51. The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you’re asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer. – Penelope Cruz

52. God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow. – Joyce Meyer

53. Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself. – W. E. B. Du Bois

54. As long as you have discipline, you can be a success. Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do. – Anthony Joshua

55. Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy. – Bruce Rauner

56. As a former Airman First Class in the United States Air Force, like many veterans in America, my military experience played an important part in instilling in me a sense of character and discipline that has served me throughout my life. – Chuck Norris

 

57. Let’s not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can’t have high standards without good discipline. – William Hague

58. I love tattoos. And mine symbolize who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills, and honor. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it’s a trend. – Virat Kohli

59. Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer. – Mohamed ElBaradei

60. One doesn’t become a soldier in a week – it takes training, study, and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States. – Daniel Inouye

61. The surest test of discipline is its absence. – Clara Barton

62. Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks. – Joe Paterno

63. The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline. – Bum Phillips

64. Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did. – Nelson Mandela

65. You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that. – Haile Gebrselassie

66. The fact is that, in all prisons everywhere, cruelties on the one hand and injudicious laxity of discipline on the other have at times appeared and will, at intervals, be renewed except the most vigilant oversight is maintained. – Dorothea Dix

67. It doesn’t matter what you’re trying to accomplish. It’s all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets. – Wilma Rudolph



68. There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work. – Robert De Niro

69. Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another. – George Washington

 

70. We all naturally want to become successful… we also want to take shortcuts. And it’s easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice. – Apolo Ohno

71. My message to you all is of hope, courage, and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

72. It is a full-time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment. – Jasmine Guy

73. Always remember that discipline is like a two-edged sword; it is not only to correct children when they are wrong, but to direct them to a way that is right. – James Merritt

74. A person’s attitude toward discipline is the measure of that person’s own orientation to order. – Max Van Manen

75. A person without discipline is like a ship without a rudder in the storm of life. – Robert Elias Najemy

76. I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one. – Nikola Tesla

77. Gymnastics taught me everything – life lessons, responsibility and discipline, and respect. – Shawn Johnson

78. Sacrifice, discipline, and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field. – Lou Holtz

79. The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. – Adam Smith

 

80. Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation. – Lal Bahadur Shastri

81. Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure. – Gary Ryan Blair

82. Without discipline, there’s no life at all. – Katharine Hepburn

83. Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor. – Brian Tracy

84. The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success. – Brian Tracy

85. The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don’t want. – Brian Tracy

86. You can achieve almost any goal you set for yourself as long as you have the discipline to pay the price to do what you need to do and to never give up. You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose. – Brian Tracy

87. Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery, and self-control more than anything else.
– Brian Tracy

88. There is one prevailing key to success. Do what you resolve to do. Then you’ll be a success. If you can discipline yourself to follow through on your promises to yourself, your self-esteem goes up. Persistence is self-discipline in action. Self-discipline is the foundation of self-confidence. – Brian Tracy

89. Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It’s the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. – Ann Landers

90. 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

91. No matter how sweet it smells, if you know it will give you a discomfort later, don’t even attempt to taste it. Discipline yourself to stay out of sin. – Israelmore Ayivor

92. The anarch’s study of the history of the Caesars has more of a theoretical significance for him – it offers a sampling of how far rulers can go. In practice, self-discipline is the only kind of rule that suits the anarch. He, too, can kill anyone (this is deeply immured in the crypt of his consciousness) and, above all, extinguish himself if he finds himself inadequate. – Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil

93. The warrior has awareness…we are aware that we are at war, and the war in our minds requires discipline. Not the discipline of a soldier but the discipline of a warrior. Not the discipline from the outside to tell us what to do and not to do, but the discipline to be ourselves, no matter what. – Miguel Ruiz

94. Research shows that willpower is more important than IQ. That’s why the point isn’t to become smarter, but to become more self-disciplined. – Adam Kirk Smith

95. To automatically be promoted from one class to another without any serious self- discipline, and self- improvement is a cheap life. – Sunday Adelaja

96. After self-love the second best gift you could ever give yourself is self-discipline. – Tyconis D. Allison Ty

97. Self-discipline is self-caring. – M. Scott Peck

98. Mastery of impulse is all about self-discipline and choice. The mind is a powerful tool with which we have the ability to be in control of ourselves. – Alaric Hutchinson

99. With self-discipline, self-study is possible. – Lailah Gifty Akita

100. Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. – Abraham J. Heschel

101. It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives. – Clint Eastwood

102. Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild. – Immanuel Kant

103. Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing. – Marie Chapian

104. There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learned in the school of adversity. – Mahatma Gandhi

105. Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law. – Mahatma Gandhi

106. Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief. – Mahatma Gandhi

107. Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views. – Mahatma Gandhi

108. No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. – Seneca the Younger

109. I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. – Pietro Aretino

110. There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself. – Louis XIV

111. It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. – Brutus Hamilton

112. It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner. – Vince Lombardi

113. Most of us don’t mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn’t interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not. – Joseph B. Wirthlin

114. It’s not the work that’s hard, it’s the discipline.

115. There is no luck except where there is discipline. – Irish Proverb

116. He who lives without discipline dies without honor. – Icelandic Proverb

 
117. Self-discipline is the No.1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class, and the poor. – Robert Kiyosaki

 

118. When I go and work with people, I never say, ‘Your dog is changed for the rest of its life.’ It’s like a diet. You’ve got to maintain a discipline and ritual in your life to keep a certain figure. – Cesar Millan

119. I used to have to beg and borrow £25 to hire some French windows. I started producing in 1967, and I was in debt until 1981. Having a think about whether you can afford ‘this’ or ‘that’ is a good discipline to have, to maximize what you can achieve to the highest standard. – Cameron Mackintosh

120. Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you’re not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn’t planned or counted on. – Henri Nouwen

 

121. Most talk about ‘super-geniuses’ is nonsense. I have found that when ‘stars’ drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain. – Charles M. Schwab

122. All successes begin with self-discipline.  It starts with you. – Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

123. It is not crazy to think of discipline as a chariot. Without discipline, we would drive ourselves crazy. – Noah Benshea

124. Discipline is a symbol of caring for a child. Discipline is guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. – Bette Davis

125. A person who is not disciplined cannot be cautioned. – African Proverb

126. Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks. – Colm Keaveney

127. It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. – Miguel de Cervantes

 

128. There isn’t any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist. – Tom Hanks