Business Quotes Regarding Discipline

Life is tons of discipline. Robert Frost

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

Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is to fit discipline others or can impose discipline on others. William Feather

The most we can get out of life is its disciplines for ourselves, and its usefulness for others. Tryon Edwards

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

Discipline without freedom is tyranny. Freedom without discipline is chaos. Cullen Hightower

The secret of success is constancy of purpose. Benjamin Disraeli

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. Buddha

He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory. Jyrus

If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside. Critias of Athen

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

With the worship of God must go denial of self. These are the two wings for flight. Pride of any kind will be rooted out, and also desire for power over others. Not until it rooted out can the economic potentials be developed properly and made available for all. Love of God and love of the brethren are the true preparation and discipline for life. Bernard C. Newman, D.D.

A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. Edmund Spenser

I’ve never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline . . . I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour—this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear—is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle victorious. Vince Lombardi

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

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. Harry Emerson Fosdick, D.D.

We must accept the disciplines of democracy as well as its freedoms. And those disciplines must come from ourselves, they must be reflections of our own attitudes. Discipline from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak. Harry Woodburn Chase

The future belongs to the competent.It belongs to those who are very,very good at what they do.It does not belong to the well meaning. Brian Tracy

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle

The discipline which corrects the baseness of worldly passions, fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, furnishes it with enjoyment from within itself is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions we can make of the goods of fortune. Paxton Blair