“If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.”
~ Sir Walter Scott
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Thank you friends! Because without you, I would have missed this morning’s beautiful sunrise.
With the rain yesterday came mosquitoes, who dive bombed me all night. It feels like I had just fallen back to sleep when my alarm went off. My mind did not want to get up. But I did. And then went briefly back to lie down.
We all know that self-discipline is critical to success. I’ve still been struggling with finding the right time to fit some form of exercise or daily yoga into my schedule. Today, even though I got up late, I’m going to try out something to see if it’ll work. Just as I said “sorry” to the mind that wanted me to stay in bed, so can I say “sorry” to the mind that keeps me from any goal.
So, here’s some quotes on self-discipline that I hope will inspire you too! Have a wonderful Wednesday.
10 Quotes on Self-Discipline:
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There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.
~ King Louis XIV
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue,
truly and essentially raises one man above another.
~ Joseph Addison
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
~ Aleister Crowley, , English poet and mountaineer
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
~ Napoleon Hill
The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.
~ Sir Alexander Paterson
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
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
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,
and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
~ Denis Waitley
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
~ Zig Ziglar
Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you’ve got.
~ Jim Rohn
