20 Top Self-Discipline Quotes

These are 20 of the top self-discipline quotes I have found in my research.

As a leader, you constantly need to speak and remind your team about principles of success and quotes add creditability to your speeches. By using sayings that great leaders and wise men of old have used before, you add the extra impact to the point you’re trying to make.

Self-Discipline Quotes are quotes about the need to constantly discipline ourselves to a higher standard to achieve success in the long run. This quotes I have chosen are specifically meant for that purpose. Use these quotes to inspire and motivate!

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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
- Abraham J. Heschel

The first and best victory is to conquer self.
— Plato

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.
– Bum Philips

You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.
- Jim Whittaker

The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him—and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.
— J. Paul Getty

A man without decision of character can never be said to belong to himself... He belongs to whatever can make captive of him.
- John Foster

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.
– Helen Hayes

I think the guys who are really controlling their emotions ... are going to win.
- Tiger Woods

We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.
- Vince Lombardi

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
— Vince Lombardi

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.
— Vince Lombardi

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
– Clint Eastwood

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.
- Henry Ward Beecher

If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.
- William Feather

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
— Lao Tzu

Rule your mind or it will rule you.
— Horace

Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.
— Robert J. Ringer

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
- Pierre de Coubertin

You will find more quotes about leadership and other aspects of leadership in the BONUS LINKS below. These are the top quotes about each aspect of leadership I have found and I recommend you use these quotes for your speeches and talks.

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30 Top Team Building Quotes
Quotes about building successful teams.

30 Top Change Quotes
Quotes about embracing change in life.

20 Top Integrity Quotes
Quotes about the need of integrity.

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Quotes about disciplining oneself.

21 Top Passion Quotes
Quotes about living a passionate life.

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Quotes about management of people in organizations.

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Quotes about true effective leadership.

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