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Quotes on self-discipline, focus and daily habits. This hand-picked collection brings together 22 of the finest discipline quotes ever written — from Samuel Johnson, Epictetus, Theodore Roosevelt and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

— Samuel Johnson

If you want things to be good, you must practice them.

— Epictetus

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

— Jim Rohn

Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.

— Plato

Practice makes perfect.

— English Proverb

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

— Jim Rohn

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

— Epictetus

Determination is doing what needs to be done even when you don't feel like doing it.

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

Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

— Lao Tzu

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work.

He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.

— Horace

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing will work unless you do.

— Maya Angelou

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

Day by day, what you do is who you become.

— Heraclitus

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

— Lao Tzu

Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

— Epictetus

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