Discipline Quotes - Page 10

• You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.

  George S. Patton

  Undisciplined, Great Things, Small Things

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• It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Success, Cities, Trying

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• Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Education

  Richard P. Feynman (2008). “Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman”, p.256, Hachette UK

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• For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.

  Brandon Lee

  Art, Exercise, Martial Arts

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• Discipline is an index to doctrine.

  Tertullian

  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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• There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

  Robert De Niro

  Way, Anarchy, Anarchist

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• Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.

  Ross Perot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Self-respect is the root of discipline

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Self, Roots, Dignity

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• What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Happiness, Lying

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Discipline means protection from one's own wanton interest.

  Bill Vaughan

  Mean, Protection, Interest

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• Ultimately, any type of discipline is flawed because it keeps the person who is being disciplined inept. As long as the experience is happening to you, while it is imposed on you, it is not your dream. When discipline is administered externally, the participant is dependent on the administrator of the discipline. When discipline is administered internally, the athlete becomes a victim of the structure of the discipline. Either way, only the discipline, not the dream, is being pursued.

  Cecile Reynaud

  Dream, Athlete, Long

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• Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

  Arnold Bennett

  Positive, Happiness, Attitude

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “The Human Machine: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.26, Lulu Press, Inc

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• No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Motivational, Horse

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2008). “Answers to Real Problems: Harry Emerson Fosdick Speaks to Our Time: Selected Sermons of Harry Emerson Fosdick”, p.160, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

  Seneca the Elder

  Inspirational, Powerful, Philosophical

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• One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.

  Carl Zuckmayer

  Life, Success, Good Luck

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• It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole...'Talent is Work'

  Galina Ulanova

  Inspirational, Work, Perfection

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• The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life.

  Witness Lee

  Inspirational, Strength, God

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• Rule your mind or it will rule you.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

  Julie Andrews

  Education, Order, People

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• Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Food

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Sep 26, 2013

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• Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.

  Marie Chapian

  Women, Frustration, Self

  Marie Chapian (1997). “A Confident, Dynamic You: Ten Keys to Moving from I Can't to I Can”, Vine Books

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• If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

  Walter Scott

  Inspirational, Success, Your Side

  Walter Scott (2015). “Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering”, p.84, e-artnow

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• No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  No Cross, No Crown (1669) See Proverbs 212

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• We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.

  Kavita Ramdas

  Education, Strong Women, Passion

  "'Having it all doesn't mean doing it all': Women's grad advice to women" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• If you wish to have power and influence over the many, be faithful (disciplined) when there is just a few. If you have a few employees, a few distributors, a few people, that's the time to stay in touch and be totally absorbed -- when there is just a few.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Power, People

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 17, 2016

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