Daily Discipline Quotes

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

I built a studio in L.A. for me and my brother to just write every single day. And it's been great, man.

I'm an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

On Sunday he is to rise at seven. As soon as he has his slippers on he shall kneel at the bed and say a short prayer to God loud enough for all present to hear... After which, the Lord's Prayer. Then speedily and with all dispatch he shall dress and wash himself, be queued and powdered; and getting dressed as well as breakfast - tea, which is to be taken while the valet is making his queue and powdering him - shall be finished and done in a quarter of an hour, that is, by a quarter past seven

We go to the office every day when we're writing - or supposed to be writing. It's not always productive, and there's a lot of procrastinating, just staring at the wall, like any other writing. But we just make ourselves go to the office every day for more or less the whole day.

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly

I get up now at 5:30 in the morning. I practice the guitar for a couple of hours - I do that before I even start my day.

I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I'm going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don't really want to do that first thing in the morning.

I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year.... My custom is, to read four to five chapters every morning immediately after rising from my bed. I employs about an hour of my time.

I exercise every morning without fail. One eyelid goes up and the other follows.

No one wants to know I set my alarm and get up 8, but I think it's too weird to sleep in too late.

What's tough is being good every day.

Denying self isn't a one-time thing, but a daily task.

I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside.

Everybody has goals, dreams, whatever you want to call it. But are you willing to pay? You have to be honest with yourself: What do I need to do every day to reach those goals and achieve the level that I want, not only for yourself but also for the team?

I equate exercising with brushing my teeth or taking a shower: It gets my day going.

Each weekday morning, I'm up - reading, reading, reading.

For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach... It is a sort of benediction on the house.

To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

I go hard each and every day.

I work every day. I write every day. I walk around in silent conversation with my latest unfinished songs.

Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.