* Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

* I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.
Lee Iacocca

* One discipline always leads to another discipline.
Jim Rohn

* Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.
Brian Tracy

* When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
Josiah Quincy

* The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.

* Half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck.
Carl Zuckmeyer

* By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work 12 hours a day.
Anonymous

* I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul’s good to do each day two things they disliked. . . . It is a precept I have followed scrupulously: for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
William Somerset Maugham

* Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace

* Nothing is more harmful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army superiority over another.
George Washington

* The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.
E.M. Gray

* Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.
Jim Rohn

* It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don't pity them, don't feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead.
Brutus Hamilton

* Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.
H. Ross Perot