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• It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Feb 15, 2013

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• You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.

  Jim Whittaker

  Motivational, Mountain, Mastery

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• It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

  John Steinbeck

  Stupid, Writing, Literature

  John Steinbeck (2001). “A Life in Letters”, p.729, Penguin UK

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• I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline

  Vince Lombardi

  Running, Volleyball, Heart

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Spiritual, Learning, Quality

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• I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.

  Anthony Braxton

  Real, Esoteric, Study

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• You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

  Blythe Danner

  Night, Theatre, Energy

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• A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

  John Kasich

  Religious, War, Hippie

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• Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.

  David Sylvian

  Buddhism, Belief, Zen Buddhism

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• You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

  Michael Dell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Michael Dell: Taking The Direct Approach", www.entrepreneur.com. October 9, 2008.

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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.

  Bernard Baruch

  Freedom, Blessing, Democracy

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1960). “Baruch: The Public Years”

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• The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

  Tryon Edwards

  Education, Teacher, Learning

  " A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 134), 1891.

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• Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Marine, Marine Life

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• Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

  Peter Marshall

  Patience, Work, Christian Inspirational

  Dr. Peter Marshall (2016). “Mr. Jones, Meet the Master: Sermons And Prayers Of Peter Marshall”, p.277, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

  Tertullian

  Judging, Quality, Doctrine

  "The Prescriptions Against the Heretics" by Tertullian, as translated by Stanley Lawrence Greenslade in "Early Latin Theology: Selections from Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, and Jerome" (p. 63), 1956.

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• Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

  Ayn Rand

  Life Changing, Passion, Mean

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.571, Penguin

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• It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

  Steve Winwood

  Music, Passion, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter.

  Russell Banks

  Attention, Pals, Smarter

  Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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• The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.

  Brian Tracy

  Self, Quality, Planning

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• Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

  Francois Mauriac

  Children, Doe, Voiceless

  "Journal, 1932-1939". Book by François Mauriac, Table ronde, p. 278, 1947.

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• Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

  Edmund Burke

  Justice, Example, World

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• It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?

  Alan Perlis

  Fun, Learning, Self

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

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• The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

  Goldwin Smith

  House, Soldier, Citizens

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.

  Celine Dion

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