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Discipline Quotes
"However, lifestyle intervention requires discipline with a tangible end result that is within reach. It requires personal resolve, a lifelong commitment."
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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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"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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"Turn the actions in achieving your goals into systematically repeated things and make them your routine."
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"I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom."
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"What you practice too often, you use without thinking."
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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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"Diligence is the mother of good luck."
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"Discipline is a bridge built through everyday action."
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"I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to."
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"Overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move towards our dreams."
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"Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast."
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"If I want to catch the damn worm I get outta bed."
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"Prof. Gerd Gleixner said " Lailah recommend that you work every morning on the dissertation in order to meet the deadline. There are only 4 weeks ."
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"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."
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"Always do more than you get paid for to make an investment in your future."
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"The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred."
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"When you are writing, you must treat it as the most important thing in the world, even when you know it is not. This helps you take the job seriously and do your best on everything you write."
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"7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated."
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"One does not go to Moscow to get fat."
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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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"When you re lazy, you find lots of interesting excuses."
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"With discipline, dedication and diligence, you will achieve the goal."
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"Larine had a bright future ahead of her, but she had to learn to obey the rules before she could begin learning which could be broken and when."
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"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion."
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"By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?"
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"The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing."
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"Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle."
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"If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it."
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"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."
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"The first person you have to conquer is you. This is because when at last you win over million people, the first person to bring you down could be you. Discipline yourself!"
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"Creativity muscle needs to be strengthened, and creativity excellence needs to be cultivated."
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"Discipline is more about self-control through your inner strength and less about restriction."
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"It takes discipline to turn illusion into reality."
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"If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each night, renounce sex, and subsist on a diet of raw vegetables, you would find a new golf instructor. However, when gurus make demands of this kind, many of their students simply do as directed."
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"Laziness is when you accede to the misconception that work is unnecessary."
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"Oh yes. It was well worth it, doing things the proper way."
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"The willingness to burn your ships, cut off all sources of retreat, and take decisive action is often the only assured path to success."
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"Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in."
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"Most powerful is he who has himself in his power."
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"People who truly serve God embrace light, they fall in love with light, and they proclaim light, they fight with light."
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"Focus is the ability to say no to the GOOD so you can fulfill the yes you said to the GREAT."
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"Lose your temper and you lose the fight."
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"Success is in direct proportion to the level of consistency in the application of the daily disciplines and actions required."
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"The first obligation for every church is to teach their members the value of hard work."
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"To truly be better than your past self, you must practice the rule of ten thousand hours and you must invest so much time building yourself up."
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"To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy."
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"It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh."
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"For discipline is the channel in which our acts run strong and deep; where there is no direction, the deeds of men run shallow and wander and are wasted."
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"Do not indulge your weaknesses!"
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