Discipline Quotes - Page 8

• Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Perfect, Achievement, Insanity

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• Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

  Brian Tracy

  Self, Mastery, Time Management

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• In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.

  Robert Breault

  Artist, Daring, Great Art

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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.

  Stephen King

  Cutting, Knives, Meat

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.

  Cameron Diaz

  Hate, Way, Worried

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• Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Receiving, Genius

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.222, 谷月社

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• There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

  George S. Patton

  Perfect, Self Discipline

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• The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Heaven, Occupation, Materials

  Frederick William Robertson (1880). “"The Human Race" and Other Sermons: Preached at Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton”

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• And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

  Jason Statham

  Travel, Focus, Competition

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. June 6, 2003.

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• No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Defeated, Conqueror

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• Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Wise, Time, Learning

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• The surest test of discipline is its absence.

  Clara Barton

  Teaching, Tests, Absence

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• There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

  Ethel Merman

  Player, Invention, Theater

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

  Brian Tracy

  Doe, Very Good, Wells

  Twitter post from May 12, 2014

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• Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

  Alfred Jarry

  Real, Men, Blind

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• Discipline is not a nasty word.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Volleyball, Nasty

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• All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

  John W. Gardner

  Excellence, Purpose, Tenacity

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.103, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

  Russell Banks

  Writing, Attention, Pals

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

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• Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Leadership, Insperational

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

  Clint Eastwood

  Influence And Power, People, Positive Influence

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• Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear-and doubt. Self-discipline allows a pitcher to feel his individuality, his inner strength, his talent. He is master of, rather than a slave to, his thoughts and emotions.

  Harvey Dorfman

  Freedom, Fear, Thinking

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• Discipline is the soul of an army.

  George Washington

  Army, Soul, Founding Fathers Democracy

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.24, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Strength, Courage

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