Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

To become the kind of person you want to become, you've got to have discipline. It's easier to keep to your standards 100 percent of the time versus 98 percent of the time.

Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

If you want to be pro, you have to hold yourself accountable. It's about what you do when nobody's looking.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

You only get out of it what you put into it. If you are a sheep in this world, you're not going to get much out of it.

Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

There are many people who have big plans but their big plans never come true. The reason is, too many people have big plans but fail to keep their small agreements.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

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

If you want to be the best salesperson, first you must be the best person.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that.

The secret of success is sincerity.

You're always concerned for your character. You should be.

I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.