Quotes About Discipline

Super-successful people aren't superhuman at all; they've just used selected discipline to develop a few significant habits. One at a time. Over time.

To achieve an extraordinary result you must choose what matters most and give it all the time it demands. This requires getting extremely out of balance in relation to all other work issues

Achievement doesn't require you to be a full-time disciplined person where your every action is trained and where control is the solution to every situation. Success is actually a short race—a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early, before your willpower is drawn down.

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.

When it comes to willpower, timing is everything.

So, if you want to get the most out of your day, do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early, before your willpower is drawn down.

When you discipline yourself, you're essentially training yourself to act in a specific way. Stay with this long enough and it becomes routine—in other words, a habit. So

Build one habit at a time. Success is sequential, not simultaneous. No one actually has the discipline to acquire more than one powerful new habit at a time. Super-successful people aren't superhuman at all; they've just used selected discipline to develop a few significant habits. One at a time. Over time.

The results suggest that it takes an average of 66 days to acquire a new habit. The full range was 18 to 254 days, but the 66 days represented a sweet spot—with easier behaviors taking fewer days on average and tough ones taking longer.

When you choose a big life, by default, you'll have to go small to get there. You must survey your choices, narrow your options, line up your priorities, and do what matters most. You must go small. You must find your ONE Thing.

Highly successful people know this. So every day they line up their priorities anew

When you're supposed to be working, work, and when you're supposed to be playing, play. It's a weird tightrope you're walking, but it's only when you get your priorities mixed up that things fall apart.

THE FOUR THIEVES OF PRODUCTIVITY Inability to Say "No" Fear of Chaos Poor Health Habits Environment Doesn't Support Your Goals

When you want the absolute best chance to succeed at anything you want, your approach should always be the same. Go small.

There is this pervasive idea that the successful person is the "disciplined person" who leads a "disciplined life." It's a lie. The truth is we don't need any more discipline than we already have.

When you discipline yourself, you're essentially training yourself to act in a specific way. Stay with this long enough and it becomes routine—in other words, a habit.

The right discipline goes a long way, and habits are hard only in the beginning.

The goal in life is not to be a disciplined person but to be a person of selected disciplines.

Put up with the discipline long enough to turn it into a habit, and the journey feels different.

it takes an average of 66 days to acquire a new habit.

Sustain the discipline long enough on one habit, and not only does it become easier, but so do other things as well.

Be a person of powerful habits and use selected discipline to develop them.

established, you can either build on that habit or, if appropriate, build another one. If you are what you repeatedly do, then achievement isn't an action you take but a habit you forge into your life. You don't have to seek out success. Harness the power of selected discipline to build the right habit, and extraordinary results will find you.