Top 100 Discipline Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Discipline is a choice. It’s simply consistently choosing the hard right over the easy wrong.”

— Rory Vaden

52. “The reason it’s important to push hardest when you want to quit the most is because it helps you callous your mind. It’s the same reason why you have to do your best work when you are the least motivated.”

— David Goggins

53. “When setting expectations, no matter what has been said or written, if substandard performance is accepted and no one is held accountable – if there are no consequences – that poor performance becomes the new standard.”

— Jocko Willink

54. “Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.”

— Bobby Knight

55. “A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don’t have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then you can have all the talent in the world, and you aren’t going to finish a book.”

— Nora Roberts

56. “We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. ”

— Jim Rohn

57. “Through discipline comes freedom.”

— Aristotle

58. “It’s a lot more than mind over matter. It takes relentless self discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day.”

— David Goggins

59. “The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.”

— George Orwell

60. “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

61. “Don’t make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.”

— Ralph Marston

62. “If you quit once, it becomes a habit. Never quit.”

— Michael Jordan

63. “The best fighter is never angry.”

— Lao Tzu

64. “The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.”

— Robert Greene

65. “You can keep going and your legs might hurt for a week, or you can quit and your mind will hurt for a lifetime.”

— Mark Allen

66. “There are two types of pain you will go through in life, the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes.”

— Jim Rohn

67. “A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

68. “When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.”

— Zig Ziglar

69. “Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.”

— Swami Vivekananda

70. “Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.”

— John C. Maxwell

71. “Persistence is self-discipline in action.”

— Brian Tracy

72. “Don’t let fatigue make a coward out of you.”

— Steve Prefontaine

73. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

— Stephen King

74. “Discipline is consistency of action.”

— James C. Collins

75. “No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.”

— Regina Brett

76. “All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.”

— Robert McKee

77. “If you lose self-control everything will fall.”

— John Wooden

78. “Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better.”

— John Wooden

79. “Excuses don’t burn calories.”

— Anonymous

80. “I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done.”

— David Goggins

81. “I’m a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can’t see any other way of accomplishing anything.”

— Michael Jordan

82. “Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.”

— Lou Holtz

83. “The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying.”

— John C. Maxwell

84. “I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.”

— Florence Nightingale

85. “Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.”

— Swami Vivekananda

86. “Hard work and training. There’s no secret formula.”

— Ronnie Coleman

87. “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.”

— Jim Rohn

88. “Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.”

— Marcus Aurelius

89. “Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.”

— Joyce Meyer

90. “I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”

— Kobe Bryant

91. “Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline.”

— Jocko Willink

92. “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”

— Bruce Lee

93. “NOBODY CARES. WORK HARDER.”

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94. “Discipline equals freedom.”

— Jocko Willink

95. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”

— Aristotle

96. “Today I will do what others won’t so tomorrow I can do what others can’t.”

— Jerry Rice

97. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

— Jim Rohn

98. “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.”

— Jim Rohn

99. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.””

— Muhammad Ali

100. “No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.”

— Charlie Munger