Motivation techniques Quotes

My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.

- Adam Pally

Somewhere deep inside me was the will and determination not only to live, but to be a more present mother for my kids, instead of one who was emotionally unavailable because she was in so much pain, as my own mother was.

- Alana Stewart

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

- Alexis Ohanian

The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

- Ang Lee

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

- Ann Patchett

Without the discipline of having a wife to come home to, you end up just working all the time.

- Anthony Goldbloom

As long as you have discipline, you can be a success. Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do.

- Anthony Joshua

It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.

- Arthur Lydiard

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.

- Barack Obama

It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

- Barbara Kingsolver

I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.

- Barry O'Farrell

With this sort of career, you need determination. You've got to sacrifice a lot of things: family, friends - not that I had any - but you sacrifice everything.

- Benjamin Clementine

I learned a lot from being in hell. I learned discipline. I learned that I choose what to put in my body.

- Bernard Hopkins

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

- Bernard Law Montgomery

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.

- Bessie Head

Opening a complaint for investigation in no way implies that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has made a determination about the merits of the complaint.

- Betsy DeVos

I don't think I have discipline when it comes to anything.

- Brian K. Vaughan

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

- Bum Phillips

I'm going to discipline my kids, and can't no one tell me how to discipline my kids.

- Calvin Johnson

It's not a public matter when you discipline your family.

- Calvin Johnson

Sport has given me drive and discipline. It also taught me to remain humble.

- Charlene, Princess of Monaco

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

- Charles Simmons

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

- Charles Spurgeon

Determination gets you a long way.

- Chelsea Clinton

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

- Clara Barton

To become the kind of person you want to become, you've got to have discipline. It's easier to keep to your standards 100 percent of the time versus 98 percent of the time.

- Clayton Christensen

To become the kind of person you want to become, you've got to have discipline. It's easier to keep to your standards 100 percent of the time versus 98 percent of the time.

- Clayton M. Christensen

Engineering didn't take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Persian Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked.

- Colin Powell

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

- Conor Oberst

My early years were hardly a model of focus, discipline, and direction. No one who met me as a teenager could have imagined my going into research and making important discoveries. No one could have predicted the arc of my career.

- Craig Venter

While restoring a sense of fiscal discipline to Congress is a top priority, infrastructure spending is an important and necessary task of government. Our nation's long-term debt requires us to prioritize and economize with every tax dollar.

- Cynthia Lummis

A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

- D. A. Pennebaker

Discipline is remembering what you want.

- David Campbell

We have little choice but to place a certain level of trust in scientists - even when it comes to the model-driven speculative discipline of climate change. And, need it be said, most scientists take great care in being honest, principled and precise.

- David Harsanyi

Paradoxically, the United States' determination to protect its troops can be self-defeating. Allies and adversaries see U.S. forces living in secure compounds, eating fancy chow and minimizing their exposure to potential terrorist assaults.

- David Ignatius

What makes a poem is the discipline inherent in making a poem: trying to fit feelings in the requisite number of syllables and lines, disciplining one's feelings.

- Derek Walcott

As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.

- Dexter Fletcher

I started posting covers online and having this crazy determination about what I wanted to do and just went for it. I was like, 'Okay, no one else can create my future for me, and no one can get what I want for me, so I have to go out and get it myself.'

- Dua Lipa

My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, you can make 10 gallons of chocolate mousse, take a spoonful and another and another, and you won't realize you've eaten like five servings of it. It's just what you do.

- Duff Goldman

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

- Eddie Marsan

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do.

- Edward James Olmos

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them.

- Edward James Olmos

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

- Edwin Louis Cole

Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a certain dignity, an angry dignity.

- Ellen Ullman

Going to the gym and looking for a specific result is a short-lived existence, as opposed to going to the gym and adopting it as a lifestyle. Develop a routine, because it's much harder to break it if you have one. If you have no routine, you have nothing to break, so discipline goes out the window.

- Eric Dane

I really appreciate the sport background because the structure and the discipline that that gives a person is incredible, and it just carries with you wherever you go.

- Estella Warren

Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.

- Etta James

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.

- Flea

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

- Francois Mauriac

I hated school, didn't like the discipline.

- Gary Gygax

Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination.

- George Jackson

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

- George S. Patton

We have to continue our efforts with determination.

- Giorgio Napolitano

I've always played sport, ever since I was little. I played volleyball and I believe sport teaches you a lot, such as teamwork, respect and discipline.

- Gisele Bundchen

I ask the educational system, the parents, the church, and pillars of the community to help shape a new culture of honesty, patriotism, respect, discipline and service for young Filipinos.

- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

People seem to be looking for discipline in a topsy-turvy world.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

No one wants a lecture when you're getting a latte. So if you get one without asking, isn't that grounds for some discipline?

- Greg Gutfeld

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

- Gustav Mahler

Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.

- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

- Henri Nouwen

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

- Henry James

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered.

- Henry Sy

People ask me what's the most important function when you're starting an organization or setting up the kind of culture and values that are going to endure. The discipline I believe so strongly in is H.R., and its the last discipline that gets funded.

- Howard Schultz

At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.

- Howard Thurman

Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

- Iain Duncan Smith

A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it's become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It's a tool for me; when you're an entrepreneur, and you're pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.

- Imran Amed

From the age of 6, when I won my first race in skiing, I was on the national ski teams, really until Olympics in '72, so I always had a lot of discipline and commitment to achieve as much as I could in good way. Competitiveness doesn't stop when you stop skiing.

- Ivana Trump

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

- Jake Gyllenhaal

There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right requires all the intelligence, wisdom, and determination you will be able to muster from day to day.

- James Dobson

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

- James Truslow Adams

I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.

- Jean Giraudoux

Discipline is doing what you really don't want to do so you can do what you really want to do.

- Jeff Fisher

Fiscal discipline can turn the economy around.

- Jeff Fortenberry

Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

- Jeremy Irvine

I don't go out drinking and stuff like that. My friends say 'Just have one drink, JD.' I say 'What's the point?' I'll go to a club and have a Red Bull, get my buzz. And the next day I feel cool. It's discipline, not just with drinking but a lot of things in life. You've just got to look at the bigger picture.

- Jermain Defoe

The most important lesson my parents taught me is that writing is a job, one that requires discipline and commitment. Most of the time it's a fun job, a wonderful job, but sometimes it isn't, and those are the days that test you.

- Jesse Kellerman

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

- Jim Broadbent

I'm a time person. It's the one discipline I manage.

- Jim Harrison

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

- Jim Rohn

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

- Jim Rohn

Freedom is what everyone wants - to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

- Jocko Willink

With the emergence of the Internet, it has become possible for creative and bold people with focus and determination to establish businesses in some of our remotest communities. But these will not work if they do not have reliable transport routes responding to the impatient modern customer.

- Johann Lamont

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

- John Howard

The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.

- John Hurt

Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can... On third down and short yardage, the Raiders don't jump offside. That's discipline - not a coat and tie, not a clean shave.

- John Madden

To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

- John Madden

Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.

- John Wooden

Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

- Jonathan Winters

It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination.

- Judy Blume

I have discipline; I look after my voice.

- Julio Iglesias

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.

- Karen Armstrong

I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.

- Karisma Kapoor

I've met lots of interesting people, but Lucian Freud is the one who sticks out because I spent so much time with him. He taught me discipline, which I hadn't been taught properly before. If I was, like, two seconds, late, he would kick off. Once, I was three minutes late, and he went absolutely berserk.

- Kate Moss

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

- Katharine Hepburn

I don't have a lot of discipline.

- Katherine Heigl

They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.

- Kelly Preston

Work hard. Through determination and self-focus and discipline, you can accomplish anything.

- Kimberly Guilfoyle

It's all discipline and schedule for me. I mean, it's very easy to get distracted by the real world and things that intrude constantly, and it takes dedication to live totally in your head and be tuned out.

- Kristin Gore

If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be.

- Lara Stone

If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.

- Larry Page

If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.

- Laura Dern

You may have seen me in movies like 'Fast & Furious' and 'Avatar.' But I wouldn't have been able to do any of that without hard work and determination. You can accomplish anything if you just stay out of trouble and do the right things.

- Laz Alonso

Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

- Liam Gallagher

It is a sign of my mother's determination, confidence, and creativity that more than 50 years after launching the renowned Ebony Fashion Fair show, her timeless sense of style endures as a guidepost for today's fashion-loving women.

- Linda Johnson Rice

I don't like post-modernism. It's cynical, and takes no discipline - you just copy. It doesn't allow a film to be open to reality.

- Luca Guadagnino

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

- M. Scott Peck

You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

- Malorie Blackman

Ballet can be grueling, for sure, but it gives you a certain discipline.

- Margaret Qualley

The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable.

- Mark Helprin

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.

- Martin Bashir

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

- Mary Garden

If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.

- Michael J. Fox

The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.

- Mike Pence

I think my own thinking is harsher than my mom's discipline.

- Mirai Nagasu

Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.

- Mitch Gaylord

Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer.

- Mohamed ElBaradei

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Boot camp was the first time I got a heavy dose of discipline. It was the best thing that ever happened to me.

- Nelsan Ellis

Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.

- Nicole Ari Parker

College is good discipline. That's what I learned there: pull an all-nighter, get it done, and get an A. I'm the biggest procrastinator, and I learned how to be an efficient procrastinator.

- Nikki Glaser

We must embrace a new agenda based on inclusiveness; a commitment to reconnecting the social and the economic; a relinking of the latter to a plausible redistributive system; and a determination to ensure that everyone has access to justice. All these things are within our reach.

- Noreena Hertz

Language is too complex for a computer to understand. It's not going to be able to make sense of what people are saying en masse. We need a new type of discipline that puts together computer scientists and social scientists, who can add context to the situation.

- Noreena Hertz

It doesn't matter what kind of body you have, it's the determination and the spirit that's going to get you there. I want to prove that.

- Oksana Masters

To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.

- Olga Kurylenko

I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.

- P. N. Elrod

Discipline is not a nasty word.

- Pat Riley

I think the truth is, we are all racist, really, when it comes down to it. I think all of us have to check ourselves from time to time, and say, 'Look, that sort of attitude isn't good enough.' It takes discipline to keep our prejudices out.

- Peter Hollingworth

You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.

- Phil Robertson

I'm a watch guy - to me, they symbolize hard work and determination.

- Philip Winchester

The discipline as a dancer carried over into my life.

- Phyllis Smith

I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

- Pope Francis

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps.

- R. Lee Ermey

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

- Reese Witherspoon

Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to scale a business is less reliant on brute force. It's actually one part determination, one part ingenuity, and one part laziness.

- Reid Hoffman

I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination.

- Renny Harlin

China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens up a potential for artistic expression far greater than anyone would ever have dreamed possible until today. It is this very spirit of the struggle and determination to triumph that inspires creative expression.

- Richard MacDonald

Every night, you fight for that standing ovation at the end of the night. And if you do something wrong, the domino effect is chaotic. And you must not allow yourself to make mistakes whatsoever. So in that case, theater, it's fascinating because of the discipline that you need.

- Ricky Martin

When push comes to shove, I'm a fighter, and I'm going to force someone to fight. It takes a lot of technique, it takes a lot of skill, but to take that, and make something of it, it's a lot of heart and a lot of determination, and that's something I have. That's who I am.

- Robbie Lawler

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

- Robert De Niro

You always give credit where credit is due - to high school coaches, college coaches - but my dad, the foundation that he built with me, is where all of this came from. The speed, the determination, the mindset, just the natural belief that you can do anything you put your mind to, it all comes from my dad.

- Robert Griffin III

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

- Robert Kiyosaki

Discipline has been a key factor to my success.

- Rohan Bopanna

Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.

- Ron Ben-Israel

I know what it's like to win things. You need a certain type of player with a determination to win. You see it in the eyes.

- Ruud Gullit

Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.

- Sam Altman

I don't think I'm conscious of most of the things I've drawn from football, because they're so ingrained in me now... understanding that the discipline and the routine and the regimentation to be successful.

- Sam Hunt

I get my drive and determination from just winning and playing tennis. I know if I don't work, I won't get rewarded. It was a life long dream to win a Grand Slam so when I was able to do that it felt so good and I wanted to do it again. It's not that hard to stay motivated.

- Samantha Stosur

The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature.

- Samuel Smiles

Victory is the child of preparation and determination.

- Sean Hampton

I've got a friend who's a power lifter, and she's a vegetarian. I don't know how she does it. I want red meat all the time. I applaud the discipline; I really do. I just can't do it. Good for her, but not for me.

- Seth Rollins

Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It's not really anything; it's just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.

- Shia LaBeouf

Discipline is creating the situation.

- Shunryu Suzuki

I truly believe the discipline I have honed as a dancer will bring me more opportunities as an actor.

- Sofia Boutella

Diabetes taught me discipline.

- Sonia Sotomayor

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

- Suzanne Vega

I like thrillers a lot. There's a lot of discipline connected to them. You can't be as freewheeling as you are with character pieces.

- Sydney Pollack

I must discipline myself. I must be imaginative and create plots, knit motives, probe dialogue - rather than merely trying to record descriptions and sensations. The latter is pointless, without purpose, unless it is later to be synthesized into a story. The latter is also a rather pronounced symptom of an oversensitive and unproductive ego.

- Sylvia Plath

I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander's authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women under his or her command within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

- Tammy Duckworth

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

- Tariq Ramadan

Women are the key to successful development and ongoing progress. In the workforce, their ingenuity, determination, and hard work help our economies thrive. In the government, they offer valuable perspective that can inform policy and remove barriers.

- Tedros Adhanom

I'm really grateful for my dancers' discipline.

- Teri Garr

We call the Creator father, because we rely upon Him to protect us, guide us, feed us, keep us warm, to discipline us and all those things. I try to take my cue from the Creator, with regard to my children.

- Terrence Howard

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

- Theodor Adorno

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

- Tom Kite

When families break down, you have a lot of repercussion from that, from poverty to crime to lack of discipline.

- Tony Evans

Fiscal discipline is a priority in Romania, and we have already proven we are committed and able to make real progress in this area.

- Victor Ponta

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

- Vince Lombardi

I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.

- Walter Isaacson

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

- Washington Irving

I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.

- Wayne Rooney

My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing.

- will.i.am

Error is discipline through which we advance.

- William Ellery Channing

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

- William Feather

I am optimistic when I consider the spiritual dimension which the scientist's discipline forces him to ignore.

- William Golding

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

- William Hague

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

- Zig Ziglar