"In reading the lives of great
men, I found that the first victory
they won was over themselves
self-discipline
with all of them came first." Harry
S. Truman
"If
you will discipline yourself to make
your mind self-sufficient you will thereby
be least vulnerable to injury from the
outside." Critias of Athen
"He
conquers twice who conquers himself
in victory." Jyrus
"It
is better to conquer yourself than to
win a thousand battles. Then the victory
is yours. It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or
hell." Buddha
"What
it lies in our power to do, it lies
in our power not do." Aristotle
"The
first and the best victory is to conquer
self." Plato
"First
we form habits, then they form us. Conquer
your bad habits or they will conquer
you."
Rob Gilbert
"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." Tyron Edwards
"No
man or woman has achieved an effective
personality who is not self-disciplined.
Such discipline must not be an end in
itself, but must be directed to the
development of resolute Christian character."
John S. Bonnell
"If
you do not conquer self, you will be
conquered by self." Napoleon Hill
"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
"The
only discipline that lasts is self-discipline."
Bum Phillips
"A
colt is worth little if it does not
break its halter." Proverb
"Nothing
of importance is ever achieved without
discipline. I feel myself sometimes
not wholly in sympathy with some modern
educational theorists, because I think
that they underestimate the part that
discipline plays. But the discipline
you have in your life should be one
determined by your own desires and your
own needs, not put upon you by society
or authority."
Bertrand Russell
"He
who lives without discipline dies without
honor." Icelandic Proverb
"Beyond
a wholesome discipline, be gentle with
yourself. You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees or the stars;
you have a right to be here."From
Disiderata
Men
are anxious to improve their circumstances,
but are unwilling to improve themselves;
they therefore remain bound. The man
who does not shrink from self-crucifixion
can never fail to accomplish the object
upon which his heart is set. This is
true of earthly as of heavenly things.
Even the man whose object is to acquire
wealth must be prepared to make great
personal sacrifices before he can accomplish
his object; and how much more so he
who would realize a strong and well-poised
life."
James Allen
"It's
not the work that's hard, it's the discipline."Anonymous
"You
never will be the person you can be
if pressure, tension ard discipline
are taken out of your life."Dr.
James G. Bilkey
"That
discipline which corrects the eagerness
of worldly passions, which fortifies
the heart with virtuous principles,
which enlightens the mind with useful
knowledge, and furnishes to it matter
of enjoyment from within itself, is
of more consequence to real felicity
than all the provisions which we can
make of the goods of fortune."Robert
Blair
"No
man or woman has achieved an effective
personality who is not self-disciplined.
Such discipline must not be an end in
itself, but must be directed to the
development of resolute Christian character."John
Sutherland Bodell
"Discipline
is remembering what you want."David
Campbell
"Hands
untrained in the use of tools destroy
what they want to build. It takes skill
to use tools to achieve the result desired,
whether it's tearing down an old house
or building a new one. Skepticism is
a tool serving both purposes. But it
must be used by a trained mind, a mind
capable of disciplined thinking."
J.B. Charles
"It
takes tremendous discipline to control
the influence, the power you have over
other people's lives."Clint Eastwood
"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."Tyron Edwards
"If
we conducted ourselves as sensibly in
good times as we do in hard times, we
could all acquire a competence."William
Feather
"If
we don't discipline ourselves, the world
will do it for us."William Feather
"No
steam or gas drives anything until it
is confined. No life ever grows great
until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."Harry
Emerson Fosdick D.D
"It
is one of the strange ironies of this
strange life that those who work the
hardest, who subject themselves to the
strictest discipline, who give up certain
pleasurable things in order to achieve
a goal, are the happiest men. When you
see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance
race in some meet, don't pity them,
don't feel sorry for them. Better envy
them instead."
Brutus Hamilton
"Who
has courage to say no again and again
to desires, to despise the objects of
ambition, who is a whole in himself,
smoothed and rounded."
Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
"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
"The
hope of a secure and livable world lies
with disciplined nonconformists who
are dedicated to justice, peace and
brotherhood."Martin Luther King,
Jr.
"I
forget who it was that recommended men
for their souls good to do each
day two things they disliked. . . .
It is a precept I have followed scrupulously:
for every day I have got up and I have
gone to bed."
William Somerset Maugham
"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
"Discipline
must come through liberty. . . . We
do not consider an individual disciplined
only when he has been rendered as artificially
silent as a mute and as immovable as
a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated,
not disciplined."
Maria Montessori
"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."
H. Ross Perot
"Discipline
is the bridge between goals and accomplishments."Jim
Rohn
"Discipline
is the soul of an army. It makes small
numbers formidable, procures success
to the weak, and esteem to all."George
Washington
"Nothing
is more harmful to the service, than
the neglect of discipline; for that
discipline, more than numbers, gives
one army superiority over another."George
Washington
"One-half
of life is luck; the other half is discipline
and thats the important
half, for without discipline you wouldnt
know what to do with luck."
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