Discipline Quotes - Page 36

• We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning--of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of the citizens in formulating and implementing the Party's policy.

  Nicolae Ceausescu

  Party, Democracy, Citizens

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• Basketball isn't easy. All my life I've been striving to make myself better. It's a full time commitment. To be the best, you have to work the hardest. You have to chase what seems impossible over and over and over again, because giving up is not an option, and when you feel like you've reached your limit, it's only the beginning, that's when the time to dig deep, to find the courage to push some more, because if you've got the drive, the discipline, and the resolve to do what it takes to make yourself great, then the rewards are endless.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Giving Up, Commitment

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• The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be known.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

  "On the revolutions".

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• [Fatherhood] is everything.... The hardest job in the world, the most rewarding job in the world.... We put in long days. And to go home and have dinner with your kids, and have to discipline one of them who's out of line, and still have the energy for that is.... I can't explain the fulfillment of that, but it is everything.

  Brad Pitt

  Jobs, Dad, Kids

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• The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Hypocrisy, Parent

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• To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise

  Haim Ginott

  Pressure, Praise

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• Cleaniness is the cornerstone of discipline and the trademark of success

  Wes Fesler

  Trademarks, Cornerstones

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• And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Focus, Growing, Want

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• Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Small Rooms, Dwelling, Mind

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.182, GENERAL PRESS

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• That's what running does to lives. It's not just exercise. It's not just achievement. It's a daily discipline that has nothing to do with speed, weight, social status, sexual orientation, political affiliation, where you live, what car you drive, or whether anyone anywhere loves you. It's about the slow and painful process of being the best you can be.

  Martin Dugard

  Running, Love You, Exercise

  Martin Dugard (2011). “To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)”, p.230, Rodale

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• Discipleship is a daily discipline; we follow Jesus a step at a time, a day at a time

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Christian, Jesus, Steps

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2010). “Be Compassionate (Luke 1-13): Let the World Know That Jesus Cares”, p.123, David C Cook

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• To a large extent, the American church has become merged with the world. It has adopted so many of the world's ideals and standards that it has lost its ability to stem the tide of crime, deception and immorality that is sweeping the nation. For millions of church members there is no deep commitment to the cause of Christ, no regularity of attendance at public worship, no sacrificial giving, no personal religious discipline.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Religious, Commitment

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• Prayer is an investment. The time you dedicate to prayer isn't lost; it will return dividends far greater than what a few moments spent on a task ever could. If we fail to cultivate this discipline, prayer winds up being our last resort rather than our first response.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Prayer, Wind

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• The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Purpose, Christian Inspirational

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.125, NavPress

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• There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

  D. A. Carson

  Christian, Maturity, Suffering

  D. A. Carson (2006). “How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil”, p.72, Baker Academic

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• It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit between its teeth. My mother taught me to gentle it; gave me the discipline and love to break it; and- as Alexander had known so intuitively with Bucephalus- she understood, and taught me, that the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Mother, Horse

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• I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Depression, Spiritual, Inability To Love

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• Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.

  Alexis Carrel

  Sacrifice, Joy, Effort

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• Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Military, Perfection, Social

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Arthur Goldhammer (2004). “Democracy in America”, p.777, Library of America

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• Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules.

  Alice Miller

  Wish, Limits, Latter

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.31, Macmillan

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• Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

  Charles Stanley

  Running, Pain, Agony

  Charles Stanley (1991). “How to Handle Adversity”, p.89, Thomas Nelson

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• It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.

  Lew Wallace

  Wise, Band, Slips

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur (Illustrated): Historical Novel - A Tale of the Christ”, p.256, e-artnow

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• Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.

  William Feather

  Weak, Grows

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• The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how brutal (within the bounds of the company's core values), to make the company great. Yet at the same time they display a remarkable humility about themselves, ascribing much of their own success to luck, discipline and preparation rather than personal genius.

  James C. Collins

  Success, Leadership, Humility

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• When a woman is fit and healthy, everything else falls into place. We are conditioned to put others first, that 'burnt chop syndrome' we observed in our mothers. It takes discipline to pay attention to our diets, to exercise, to leave time for refreshment of mind, body and spirit.

  Quentin Bryce

  Mother, Women, Fall

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