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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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"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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"Man will not merely endure; he will prevail."
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"When you feel a weak moment coming on, the key is self-control."
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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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"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave."
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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 discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."
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"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."
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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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"For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline."
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"I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline."
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"Do not allow yourself to act according to the flesh."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"A faint smile played on his lips. "Obedience does not come naturally to you, does it?""No...sir""I must take some blame for that, I suppose. The sea does not like to be restrained."
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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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"It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Your consistency says a lot about your commitment."
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"If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us."
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"Meddling is the evil, not indifference."
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"Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested."
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"Keep cool. Anger is not an argument."
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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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"Overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move towards our dreams."
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"Naturally, Coach Hedge went ballistic; but Percy found it hard to take the satyr seriously since he was barely five feet tall."Never in my life!" Coach bellowed, waving his bat and knocking over a plate of apples. "Against the rules! Irresponsible!""Coach," Annabeth said, "it was an accident. We were talking, and we fell asleep.""Besides," Percy said, "you're starting to sound like Terminus."Hedge narrowed his eyes. "Is that an insult, Jackson? 'Cause I'll-I'll terminus you, buddy!"
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"Turn the actions in achieving your goals into systematically repeated things and make them your routine."
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"The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own."
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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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"I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline."
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"Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities."
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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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"I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them."
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"Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell."
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"With discipline, dedication and diligence, you will achieve the goal."
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"I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight."
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