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"If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism."
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"We have to try to control what we can or else we cannot judge progress."
"It takes self-discipline and persistence action to achieve the goal."
"People who truly serve God embrace light, they fall in love with light, and they proclaim light, they fight with light."
"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction."
"My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline."
"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."
"Your consistency says a lot about your commitment."
"Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think."
"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave."
"Each day you wake up, work as if the manifestation of your dream solely depends on that day."
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"The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people."
"A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog."
"Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type."
"We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration."
"Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment."
"The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism."
"Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful."
"Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon."
"Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power."
"If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama."
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