Discipline Quotes - Page 9

• It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Literature, Praise, Submit

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1948). “The Living Thoughts of Cervantes”

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• I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.

  Jack LaLanne

  Motivational, Exercise, Training

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• Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Struggle, Drawing

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• He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.299, Courier Corporation

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• The one thing more difficult than following a regime is keeping from imposing it on others.

  Marcel Proust

  Difficult, Following, One Thing

  "The Maxims of Marcel Proust".

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• Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

  James A. Baldwin

  Happiness, Lying, Luck

  The Paris Review Interview (Issues 91-94, p. 77), 1984.

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• I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

  Alan Rickman

  Thinking, Connections, Absolute Freedom

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• It is essential... that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of one's own will; that it is felt as pleasant, and that one slowly accustoms oneself to a kind of behaviour which one would eventually miss, if one stopped practising it.

  Erich Fromm

  Expression, Missing, Essentials

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• If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

  Irving Babbitt

  Criticism, Standards, Conditions

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.114, Transaction Publishers

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• Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Army, Numbers

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1777). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.359

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• Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.

  Robert Ringer

  Success, Basketball, Simple

  Robert J. Ringer (1990). “Million dollar habits”, Wynwood

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• Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

  John Smith

  Success, Sports, Regret

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• My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

  Herbert Read

  War, Aquariums, Essentials

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

  Herbert Spencer

  May, Littles, Kind

  "Social Statics, Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed".

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• Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Thinking, Taste, Tender Is The Night

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

  Jasmine Guy

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

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• If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.

  William Feather

  Hard Times, Good Times, Competence

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• It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

  John Howard

  Reality, Fog, Too Much

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

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• I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Design, Assuming, Problem

  Jeffrey Veen (2001). “The Art & Science of Web Design”, New Riders Pub

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• Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

  James Russell Lowell

  Example, Literature, Shapes

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• It takes discipline and compassion to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough to recognize the divine in another.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Long Distance Relationship, Compassion, Enough

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.154, Conari Press

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• If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

  William Penn

  Power, Weakness, Conquer

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• Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

  Liam Gallagher

  Oasis, Superhero, Insulting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.

  Brian Tracy

  Men, Greatness, Fields

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• I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Thinking, Self

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.63, Penguin

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