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Quotes About Discipline

Work. Study. Focus. Dedicate yourself to it and don't give up.
~ Mateus Ward
I still work out most days. When I do it, I go full blast five or six days a week, two to three hours a day. I enjoy it. It's therapeutic for me.
~ Mickey Rourke
Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I'm in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.
~ Nick Cave
It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.
~ Philip Pullman
Dead? No excuse for laying off work.
~ Ralph Richardson
Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.
~ Raoul Peck
Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
There is only one religion in the world-hard work
~ Shahrukh Khan
My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.
~ Simon Cowell
If you go to bed at 10:00 and get up by 6:00 A.M., things will work out for you.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
I didnt know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
~ Pat Nixon
Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learnt to discipline itself.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I don't believe in luck. There are things that you have to work hard for.
~ Yunho
It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.
~ Alan Furst
It is going to be tough if you look for the easy way out because very rarely is there an easy way out. There is nothing that replaces hard work.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.
~ John Updike
My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.
~ Joshua Mohr
Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up in the morning and leave your house and go somewhere.
~ Kate Beaton
All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.
~ Kate Zambreno
Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.
~ Lois Lowry
We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.
~ Marina Abramovic
You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.
~ Martin Scorsese
Though He had so much work to do with others, yet He [Jesus] chose sometimes to be alone, to set us an example.
~ Matthew Henry