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Discipline Quotes
"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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"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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"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
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"They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline."
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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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"There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline."
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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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"Man will not merely endure; he will prevail."
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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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"Keep cool. Anger is not an argument."
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"I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline."
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"For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline."
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"Meddling is the evil, not indifference."
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"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."
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"My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline."
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"There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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 one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it."
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"Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word."
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"I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves."
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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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"When you feel a weak moment coming on, the key is self-control."
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"Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose."
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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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"I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place."
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"On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgement and effort to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur."
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"Daily discipline is the door to full freedom, and the discipline to count to one thousand gave way to the freedom of wonder and I can't imagine not staying awake to God in the moment, the joy in the now."
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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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"I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline."
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"If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us."
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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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"Do not allow yourself to act according to the flesh."
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"Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty."
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"It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it."
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"I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble."
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"Your consistency says a lot about your commitment."
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"Your habits guide and sculpt your path. The same process that builds habits can break habits."
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"Error is discipline through which we advance."
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