Quotes About Discipline

At the 1997 MacWorld Developers Conference, he explained, "When you think about focusing, you think, 'Well, focusing is saying yes.' No! Focusing is about saying no." Jobs

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

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." —Arnold H. Glasow

Michelangelo once said, "If the people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all." His

Every day great salespeople generate leads, great programmers program, and great artists paint. Take any profession or any position and fill in the blank. Great success shows up when time is devoted every day to becoming great.

So how do you make The ONE Thing part of your daily routine? How do you make it strong enough to get extraordinary results at work and in the other areas of your life?

Time on a task, over time, eventually beats talent every time.

It's a difference maker. Research says this will take about 66 days. Whether it takes you a few weeks or a few months, stick with it until it becomes your routine. If you're not serious about learning the Success Habit, you're not serious about getting extraordinary results.

make doing what matters most a priority when your willpower is its highest.

do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early, before your willpower is drawn down. Since your self-control will be sapped throughout the day, use it when it's at full strength on what matters most.

The ability to control oneself to determine one's actions is a pretty powerful idea. Base it on training and it's called discipline. But do it because you simply can, that's raw power. The power of will.

Willpower is so important that using it effectively should be a high priority. Unfortunately, since it's not on will-call, putting it to its best use requires you to manage it.

Everyone accepts that limited resources must be managed, yet we fail to recognize that willpower is one of them. We act as though our supply of willpower were endless. As a result, we don't consider it a personal resource to be managed, like food or sleep. This repeatedly puts us in a tight spot, for when we need our willpower the most, it may not be there.

From age 14 through the Beijing Olympics, Phelps trained seven days a week, 365 days a year. He figured that by training on Sundays he got a 52-training-day advantage on the competition. He spent up to six hours in the water each day. "Channeling his energy is one of his great strengths," said Bowman. Not to oversimplify, but it's not a stretch to say that Phelps channeled all of his energy into one discipline that developed into one habit—swimming daily.

the food we eat is also a key player in our level of willpower.

Great success shows up when time is devoted every day to becoming great.

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

Lock in one habit so it becomes part of your life, and you can effectively ride the routine with less wear and tear on yourself. The hard stuff becomes habit, and habit makes the hard stuff easy.

What's the ONE Thing I can do this week to discover or affirm my life's purpose... ? What's the ONE Thing I can do in 90 days to get in the physical shape I want... ? What's the ONE Thing I can do today to strengthen my spiritual faith... ? What's the ONE Thing I can do to find time to practice the guitar 20 minutes a day... ? Knock five strokes off my golf game in 90 days... ? Learn to paint in six months... ?

The fact of the matter is that aiming discipline at the right habit gives you license to be less disciplined in other areas.

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. We just need to direct and manage it a little better.

You know from reading the book that it takes on average 66 days to create a new habit, so approach this accordingly.

Without intentionally protecting it every day, we allow ourselves to go from a will and a way to no will and no way. If success is what were after, this won't work.

So how do you put your willpower to work? You think about it. Pay attention to it. Respect it. You make doing what matters most a priority when your willpower is its highest. In other words, you give it the time of day it deserves.