Julie Andrews Quotes

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

There are so many distractions you can face as a woman, either with relationships or worrying about, Should I go to this party? or, Should I be doing this to help me get ahead? All [success] is, is doing your work and staying focused. It's boring advice, but boring good advice is what you can get from me!

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

If you need five minutes every hour to look at tweets or to just surf the Internet, you need to schedule that into your schedule, allow yourself to do that. Because when people start procrastinating, what they've done is, they've tried to ignore that urge. They try to deny themselves time on Facebook or time surfing the web.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.

My constant battle is putting aside time wasters, and I have to watch out for procrastination. Staying on the path of something you're trying to create has much to do with having confidence in yourself and in your capacity to realize the things you want out of life.

If I let myself go, nothing will get done.

Whatever it is that you want to achieve, you absolutely can do it - you just have to apply yourself. Don't break the law... Buckle down and make the right choices.

I don't want to waste my life by being lazy.

He who commences many things finishes but few.

Discipline - Success doesn't just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.

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

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

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!

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.