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Discipline Quotes
"Punctuality has been called a "homely, but solid virtue. Although it is not fancy, it is a strong reflection of a person's character."
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"Excessive talking about our plans and dreams lessens our energy to do what is needed to achieve them."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us."
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"Your habits guide and sculpt your path. The same process that builds habits can break habits."
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"Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose."
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"I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline."
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"My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit."
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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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"I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get killed on your own time."
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"I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes."
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"If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner."
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"Your consistency says a lot about your commitment."
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"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year."
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"Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time."
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"It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it."
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"When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart."
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"Concentrate on sharpening your memory and peeling your sensibility. Cut every page you write by at least one third. Stop constructing those piffling little similes of yours. Work out what it is you want to say. Then say it in the most direct and vigorous way you can. Eat meat. Drink blook. Give up your social life and don't think you can have friends. Rise in the quiet hours of the night and prick your fingertips and use the blood for ink, that will cure you of persiflage!"
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"It is only when you don't want to do something that you never get the time to do it."
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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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"We are taught to be free from all vices of life. No greed, anger, lust, and attachment with any mundane things."
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"Excuses are a promise of repetition."
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"7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated."
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"Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline."
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"Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline."
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"A life filled with excuses is defeated, unproductive, and miserable."
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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 humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven."
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"Always do more than you get paid for to make an investment in your future."
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"I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold."
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"It's our version of a black hole. Just like amply compact mass can distort space and time to cause a black hole, a sufficiently dense breach of discipline in our office causes a black hole that sucks the offender away for eternity, never to spit back!"
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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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"The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own."
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"Because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we all have become lazy. Lazy people are like cancer. They spread. Before you know it, the entire country is destroyed."
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"Discipline is a bridge built through everyday action."
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"Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before."
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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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"Do not allow yourself to act according to the flesh."
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"When you feel a weak moment coming on, the key is self-control."
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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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"If I want to catch the damn worm I get outta bed."
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"You and your sister will be going with us this day, and that is not up for discussion.' He moved closer. 'Nor will it be an argument.' He stepped even closer and leaned his head slightly downward, his lips near her face. 'If you have a problem with that, little girl,' he commented at her display of stubbornness, 'then I will be more than happy to have Darius put you over his shoulder and carry you out of here. Either way, you will do as you are told, and behave yourself."
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"I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests."
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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's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds."
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