Tim Ferriss Quotes

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

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

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.

If I sleep in and don't run, I'll feel a little bit off because I didn't do what I was supposed to do. But I'm not going to beat myself up because of it. I'll just get right back on track.

Discipline is not a nasty word.

I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.

If I'm exhausted and I just don't feel like it, then I don't do it. I am a human being, after all. But I also know I'm the kind of person who, if I take one day off, well, it's very easy for me to take the next day off and then quit exercising.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

You have to stay very basic. You have to stay very focused. You have to stay very disciplined.

I told my family, 'If I get out of line, just kick my butt.' The last thing that I want is to change.

Be honest with yourself about what you're blowing off. A little cancellation here or a bow-out there can add up... but only if you refuse to acknowledge your actions.

I'm not immune to disciplinary problems and it's up to me to make strong choices. It's my responsibility.

It is extremely hard to break bad habits and takes a long time to start new, healthy ones.

Your actions become your habits. Don't let yourself make a pattern of slipups or they'll become habits!

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

I don't go out drinking and stuff like that. My friends say 'Just have one drink, JD.' I say 'What's the point?' I'll go to a club and have a Red Bull, get my buzz. And the next day I feel cool. It's discipline, not just with drinking but a lot of things in life. You've just got to look at the bigger picture.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

Getting up at 6 A.M. to run is something that keeps you on the straight and narrow.