Top 100 Discipline Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.”

— John C. Maxwell

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2. “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.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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3. “Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.”

— Darrin Patrick

4. “Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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5. “If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline.”

— Lee Kuan Yew

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6. “Confidence comes from discipline and training.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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7. “The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.”

— William Arthur Ward

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8. “Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.”

— John C. Maxwell

9. “Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons.”

— Jim Rohn

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10. “All freedom comes from discipline.”

— Anne Lamott

11. “Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.”

— Jim Rohn

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12. “You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life.”

— Zig Ziglar

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13. “Self-respect leads to self-discipline.”

— Clint Eastwood

14. “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

15. “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

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16. “Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!”

— Zig Ziglar

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17. “Remember that all success is based on long-term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way.”

— Jim Rohn

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18. “We don’t drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.”

— Andy Stanley

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19. “Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.”

— Jeanette Winterson

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20. “Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action.”

— Bob Proctor

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21. “Without discipline, there’s no life at all.”

— Katharine Hepburn

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22. “Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.”

— Brian Tracy

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23. “Discipline must come through liberty.”

— Maria Montessori

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24. “Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.”

— Sophia Loren

25. “One discipline always leads to another discipline.”

— Jim Rohn

26. “Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself is, ‘Are all the disciplines that I’m currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?’”

— Jim Rohn

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27. “It’s a new day, a new beginning for your new life. With discipline you will be amazed at how much progress you’ll be able to make. What have you got to lose except the guilt and fear of the past?”

— Jim Rohn

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28. “The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.”

— Napoleon Hill

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29. “Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.”

— Sun Ra

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30. “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

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31. “No one likes to fail. But we mortals do not become champions without effort and discipline or without making mistakes.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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32. “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

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33. “Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”

— Warren Buffett

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34. “Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life.”

— Charlotte Mason

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35. “If it turns out that my best wasn’t good enough, at least I won’t look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.”

— Michael Jordan

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36. “With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.”

— Horace

37. “A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.”

— Alan Turing

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38. “The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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39. “Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.”

— Maria Montessori

40. “NO MORE. No more excuses. No more: “I’ll start tomorrow.” No more: “Just this once.” No more accepting the shortfalls of my own will. No more taking the easy road. No more bowing down to whatever unhealthy or unproductive thoughts float through my mind.”

— Jocko Willink

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41. “But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.”

— Jocko Willink

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42. “Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.”

— Napoleon Hill

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43. “It hurts, but that’s all it does. The most difficult part of the training is training your mind. You build calluses on your feet to endure the road. You build calluses on your mind to endure the pain. There’s only one way to do that. You have to get out there and run.”

— David Goggins

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44. “Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.”

— Denzel Washington

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45. “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

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46. “Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. That’s the Law of Consistency. It doesn’t matter how talented you are. It doesn’t matter how many opportunities you receive. If you want to grow, consistency is key.”

— John C. Maxwell

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47. “By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.”

— Grenville Kleiser

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48. “Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.”

— Brian Tracy

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49. “Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.”

— Brian Tracy

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50. “The whole point is to discipline the mind.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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