John C. Maxwell Quotes

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.

Today I will surrender to discipline. I realize that sometimes it takes time to see the fruits of my labors, yet I still need to practice discipline. Help me to remember, God, that I'm moving forward, and that I'm learning the very important art of discipline.

Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.

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

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

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless.

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself.

This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.

SELF-DISCIPLINE, more than any other personal quality I can think of, is the one thing that separates successful people from the unsuccessful. Think of all it encompasses: honoring commitments, promises and deadlines, keeping your life on schedule, being willing to go the extra mile... Self-discipline is essential to success. The alternative is a life ruled by emotions, and none of us can afford that if we're going to fulfill our purpose and realize our potential.

By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.

If you want to do something that requires willpower - like going for a run after work - you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.

Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.

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

So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

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

What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.

You must have the strength to discipline yourselves so that you can accomplish your goals and enhance your natural strengths. Habits of self-discipline formed while you are young will become part of the makeup of your character for the rest of your lives.

Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.