M. Scott Peck Quotes

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

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

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

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

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.

I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

Everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait and fast.

The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

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

Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

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

Discipline has within it the potential for creating future miracles.

The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool.

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you

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.

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.

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!

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

You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred