Discipline Quotes

"You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity."

"You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your true potential."

"I don't stop when I'm tired, I stop when I'm done."

"You have to callous your mind. When you are callous, you are confident. You aren't afraid of the cold because you know the cold."

"If you can get through doing things that you hate to do, on the other side is greatness."

"It's a lot of friction to get confidence. It's not easy. It comes from personal accountability."

"If you want to be one of the few, you have to do what the few do."

"The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing."

"Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline."

"You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream, and the discipline to scale it."

"No man is free who is not master of himself."

"The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it."

"The ego is the enemy of what you want and of what you have: Of mastering a craft. Of real creative insight. Of working well with others."

"You must determine where you are going, so that you can bargain with yourself, so that you don't end up resentful, vengeful and cruel."

"Your body is capable of so much more than your mind tells you."

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems."

"I don't do things halfway. I'm very obsessive."

"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power."

"To be a master, you must be obsessed. You must live it, breathe it, and sleep it."

"You have to build calluses on your brain just like how you build calluses on your hands. Callous your mind through pain and suffering."

"Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but doing it like you love it."

"There is no growth in the comfort zone."

"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"Discipline equals freedom. While it may seem like a burden, the structure of discipline allows you to navigate the hardest times with a clear purpose."

"If you can learn how to use your mind, anything is possible. The cold is a merciless but righteous teacher."

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Financial discipline starts with cash flow."

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses—behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."