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Discipline Quotes
"The surest test of discipline is its absence."
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"I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge."
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"I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa."
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"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
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"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."
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"They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline."
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"Don't join the queue of ignorant people who do not know that their time flies away into vanity daily. Don't be a part of the lazy lot who cannot discipline themselves in solitude to convert their time into products or added value."
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"Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need and want for short-term gains (immediate gratification), which often leads to long-term pain."
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"Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man."
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"Man will not merely endure; he will prevail."
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"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave."
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"For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline."
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"I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy."
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"The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves."
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"Keep cool. Anger is not an argument."
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"When you feel a weak moment coming on, the key is self-control."
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"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."
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"So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational."
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"Do not allow yourself to act according to the flesh."
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"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."
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"I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline."
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"I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do."
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"If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us."
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"In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?"
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"Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents."
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"Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention."
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"For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline."
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"I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even."
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"It's like a muscle - if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don't keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it."
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"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."
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"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."
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"Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, ifhe is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast."
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"When you commit to doing something every day it is hard. It seems impossible and you want to quit but if you just hang in there you will see it gets easier. Every day you get a little stronger. Every day you try a little harder. There will be times when you want to quit. Your mind will tell you to stop. You need to persist. You need to continue trying every single day. And one day you will notice how easy it has become to do something that seemed so hard in the beginning."
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"It wasn't hard going to the gym, as long as he went as soon as he woke up, before he had time to think about not going. Those morning workouts made him feel like he was starting his day like a pinball, with a giant shot of momentum. The feeling sometimes didn't wear off until six or seven at night (when it was usually overtaken by the feeling that he was just bouncing haplessly from one situation to the next without any real purpose or direction)."
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"Are you placed where others are sitting down idly, doing nothing? Rise to the work with all your powers; and when the sweat stands upon your brow, and you are tempted to loiter, cry, "No, I cannot stop, for I am Christ's. If I were not purchased by blood, I might be like Issachar, crouching between two burdens; but I am Christ's, and cannot loiter."
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"Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly."
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"Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness."
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"It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it."
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"I have noticed that sometimes, our success, promotion and accomplishments become real when we say "no" to some things and act the right way. The potential that drives you to do that is called "self-discipline"."
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"My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline."
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"Your consistency says a lot about your commitment."
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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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"One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline."
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"You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'"
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"There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline."
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"I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline."
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"Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways."
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"It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon."
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"There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took."
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