1,141 Quotes About Discipline

We are creatures of habit, and leveraging our habitual tendencies is one of the best ways to develop discipline.

Because I have no natural gifts, shall I on that account give up my discipline? Far be it from me! Epictetus will not be better than Socrates, but if only I am not worse, that suffices me. For I shall not be a Milo, either, and yet I do not neglect my body, nor a Croesus, and yet I do not neglect my property, nor, in a word, is there any other field in which we give up the appropriate discipline merely from despair of attaining the highest.

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

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

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Prioritise the important things inside, then the outward will follow through.

Being disciplined is a form of self care

Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a disciplined or undisciplined state of mind. It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching.

With patient, you will get what you must have.