- The need for discipline appears in the face of contradiction.
- Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.
- If you don’t try to become this or stop being that, the conflict ends and discipline becomes irrelevant. It’s only when the act is integrated without contradiction and constraints that you are free. The discipline is destructive because it removes you from your liberty.
- Big things always start in quiet minds and minds don’t become quiet through hardship, control and discipline.
- A good discipline is not an imposed or conflictuel discipline. It’s the natural outcome of the activity you love doing. Find the things that unlock your natural energy.
- Until you become fully present, fully conscious, you can’t change your mistakes and wrong actions. You do them on automatic mode, you don’t even realize what you do. Attention and awareness on the things you KNOW are bad will fix them. If you live in the present, you won’t activate this mode.
- Discipline equals freedom.
- If you want to be tougher, be tougher.
- Impatience is a virtue. Self-discipline is another form of self conflict. Find things that excite you.
- Be prepared each day to confront your own self sabotage.
- When it comes to a lifestyle that puts you on the path to success, rules work better than choices. A rule to go to bed at 10 every night is more effective than when you feel like it. Saving 10% of your pay-check is more effective than deciding how much to save every pay-check.
- You don't lack motivation, you lack a better reason.
- Discipline defeats intelligence. Outwork everyone.