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Quotes About Discipline

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.
~ David Mamet
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.
~ Chuck Close
Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
~ Nadia Comaneci
You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.
~ Gary Player
Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.
~ Brian Tracy
I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
~ Charles Evans Hughes
If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.
~ Aristotle
I've always had the mentality of: work hard, get to bed early, focus - and let your work speak for itself.
~ Olivia Palermo
Get back to work all of you! I'm not running a happy factory here.
~ Mr. Krabs
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
~ Sophocles
Work, hard work, intelligent work, and then more work.
~ James J. Hill
I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.
~ Robert Peel
Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.
~ Joan Didion, Blue Nights
Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.
~ Nick Cave
It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.
~ Arsene Wenger
Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.
~ Lakshmi Mittal
It's waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can't stand to wait. If you didn't get the deferred-gratification gene, you've got to work very hard to overcome that.
~ Charlie Munger
You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.
~ Haile Gebrselassie
Hard work, dedication!
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.
~ Julian Casablancas
Plan your work and work your plan.
~ Marv Levy
The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.
~ Anne Truitt
My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.
~ Courtney Love
Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in.
~ Danny Silk