Melody Beattie Quotes

Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.

Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself.

The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.

The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

SELF-DISCIPLINE, more than any other personal quality I can think of, is the one thing that separates successful people from the unsuccessful. Think of all it encompasses: honoring commitments, promises and deadlines, keeping your life on schedule, being willing to go the extra mile... Self-discipline is essential to success. The alternative is a life ruled by emotions, and none of us can afford that if we're going to fulfill our purpose and realize our potential.

If you want to do something that requires willpower - like going for a run after work - you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.

As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives—in the gym, or a money management program—that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything.

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want to do. Once this becomes a habit, discipline becomes the choice of achieving what I really want by doing the very things I now want to do! I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a joy--but only after we have worked hard to practice it.

Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

You must have the strength to discipline yourselves so that you can accomplish your goals and enhance your natural strengths. Habits of self-discipline formed while you are young will become part of the makeup of your character for the rest of your lives.

Discipline is doing within, while you do without.

Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.

Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless.

The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.

I'm learning new levels of patience, perseverance and desire.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.

If you don't have discipline, you don't have anything