Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.

People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

I'm learning new levels of patience, perseverance and desire.

Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.

It's like a muscle - if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don't keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.

Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.

Oh, I have very limited will power. I wish I could change that. I am working on it, though. I am too easygoing.

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

If you don't have discipline, you don't have anything

The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.

I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.

Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.

To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.

It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.

The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.