100 Quotes About Discipline

Discipline is of course defined in many different ways. For some, it’s about having self-control, while for others it’s more about being committed to something. Either way, discipline can be learned and practiced. Here are the best quotes on discipline that will help you get started on the right foot.

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The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. David Foster Wallace
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No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Here’s a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn’t stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5.3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on “Bright Eyes.”4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank.5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13.6) Nadia Comăneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14.7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950, at the age of 15.8) Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil.9) Elvis was a superstar by age 19.10) John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in 1961.11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936.12) Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 2313) Issac Newton wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 2414) Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record15) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity16) Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France 17) Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures “David” and “Pieta” by age 2818) Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world19) J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry Potter20) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean21) Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind22) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest23) Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech “I Have a Dream."24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics 25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today are worth millions.27) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon.28) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", and 49 years old when he wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"29) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas30) Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus driver’s order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger31) John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the United States32) Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out.33) Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote "The Hunger Games"34) Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out.35) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa.36) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president.37) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels.38) Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote "The Cat in the Hat".40) Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. All of the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived41) Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise42) J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out43) Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US44) Jack Lalane at age 70 handcuffed, shackled, towed 70 rowboats45) Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became President . Pablo
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Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them. Bill Ayers
The overman... Who has organized the chaos of his passions,...
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The overman... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment. Friedrich Nietzsche
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity...
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Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to oneself. Abraham Joshua Heschel
Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A...
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Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence , Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm! ! Pablo
I always make sure that the world will prove me...
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I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself. Criss Jami
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My belief is that, morally, God and Satan are vaguely on the same page. According to the common understanding of Satan's origins, holiness must be in his blood: but a corrupted formula. The vital difference is that God is willing to offer grace for our sins; he delights in grace. God is the one and only holy and just punisher of sin, yes, but that is partly so because punishment for the sake of punishment is not something he loves. Whereas Satan, as the accuser, and as it is written, actually seeks God's permission to punish; he, being a seasoned legalist, delights in finding wrongs and will defy his own morality just to expose immorality. This is why both the anti-religious soul and the violently religious soul are, whether consciously or unconsciously, and sadly enough, glorifying their biggest hater: Satan is not only a lawless lover of punishing lawlessness, but also the greatest theologian of us all. He loves wickedness, but only because he loves punishing wickedness. . Criss Jami
The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no...
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The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it. Criss Jami
Man was designed in a way in which he must...
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Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise. Criss Jami
A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and...
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A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her. Michael Bassey Johnson
All the things that are worth doing, take time.
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All the things that are worth doing, take time. Mos Def
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Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths. Fulton J. Sheen
Embrace who you are and your divine purpose. Identify the...
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Embrace who you are and your divine purpose. Identify the barriers in your life, and develop discipline, courage and the strength to permanently move beyond them, and keep moving forward. Germany Kent
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DisciplineI am old and I have hadmore than my share of good and bad. I've had love and sorrow, seen sudden deathand been left alone and of love bereft. I thought I would never love againand I thought my life was grief and pain. The edge between life and death was thin, but then I discovered discipline. I learned to smile when I felt sad, I learned to take the good and the bad, I learned to care a great deal morefor the world about me than before. I began to forget the "Me" and "I"and joined in life as it rolled by: this may not mean sheer ecstasybut is better by far than "I" and "Me. Meryl Gordon
Tough love may be tough to give, but it is...
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Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth. T.F. Hodge
With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in...
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With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war. Amit Kalantri
Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.
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Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed. Amit Kalantri
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Discipline leads us to desire, which matures into delight. Unknown
We must do our work for its own sake, not...
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We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. Steven Pressfield
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This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete. Steven Pressfield
Raise your vibration, Not your tone of voice.. You gain...
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Raise your vibration, Not your tone of voice.. You gain inspiration, For Peace is a choice. Ana Claudia Antunes
Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is...
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Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within. Dawson Trotman
When you decide not to discipline yourself to seek for...
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When you decide not to discipline yourself to seek for knowledge in any area, God sees it as the rejection of knowledge. Sunday Adelaja
Do not let the temporal pain of discipline you need...
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Do not let the temporal pain of discipline you need to acquire knowledge stop you from acquiring it. Sunday Adelaja
Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing...
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Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them. Amit Kalantri
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Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality. Criss Jami
Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success...
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Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life. Indonesia123
There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to...
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There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes. Germany Kent
Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous...
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Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law. Augustine Of Hippo
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There are so many charlatans in the world of education. They teach for a couple of years, come up with a few clever slogans, build their websites, and hit the lecture circuit. In this fast-food-society, simple solutions to complex problems are embraced far too often. We can do better. I hope that people who read this book realize that true excellence takes sacrifice, mistakes, and enormous amounts of effort. After all, there are no shortcuts. Rafe Esquith
There is a sacred cost for everything.
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There is a sacred cost for everything. Lailah Gifty Akita
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...[I]ron discipline does not preclude but presupposes criticism and contest of opinion within the Party. Least of all does it mean that discipline must be 'blind'. On the contrary, iron discipline does not preclude but presupposes conscious and voluntary submission, for only conscious discipline can be truly iron discipline. Joseph Stalin
Life is a curriculum unique to every student.
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Life is a curriculum unique to every student. Joyce Rachelle
The point at which things happen is a decision. In...
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The point at which things happen is a decision. In stead of focusing on yourself, focus on how you can help someone else. Germany Kent
If you haven't arrived yet, keep driving, your destiny is...
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If you haven't arrived yet, keep driving, your destiny is waiting for you. Rob Liano
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Don’t join the queue of ignorant people who do not know that their time flies away into vanity daily. Don’t be a part of the lazy lot who cannot discipline themselves in solitude to convert their time into products or added value. Sunday Adelaja
To automatically be promoted from one class to another without...
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To automatically be promoted from one class to another without any serious self- discipline, and self- improvement is a cheap life. Sunday Adelaja
Be disciplined and prudent in the way you manage your...
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Be disciplined and prudent in the way you manage your time Sunday Adelaja
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My father learned his disinterest under the guise of masculinity. Boys don’t cry. There are whole disciplines, institutions, rubrics in our culture which serve as categories of denial. Science is such a category. The torture and death that Heinrich Himmler found disturbing to witness became acceptable to him when it fell under this rubric. He liked to watch the scientific experiments in the concentration camps . Susan Griffin
Submission is a tyrannical discipline.
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Submission is a tyrannical discipline. Efrat Cybulkiewicz
When you begin to pursue your promised land, you get...
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When you begin to pursue your promised land, you get a lot of prohibitions and temptations Sunday Adelaja
Be disciplined and effective in your relationship with God
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Be disciplined and effective in your relationship with God Sunday Adelaja
Leaders are not born, but made as a result of...
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Leaders are not born, but made as a result of hard work Sunday Adelaja
Don’t let the things of the world distract you. Focus...
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Don’t let the things of the world distract you. Focus on your purpose Sunday Adelaja
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Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better? Jane Nelsen
It is better to be a discipline than a follower.
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It is better to be a discipline than a follower. Lailah Gifty Akita
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When I was a boy of seven or eight I read a novel untitled "Abafi" – The Son of Aba – a Servian translation from the Hungarian of Josika, a writer of renown. The lessons it teaches are much like those of "Ben Hur, " and in this respect it might be viewed as anticipatory of the work of Wallace. The possibilities of will-power and self-control appealed tremendously to my vivid imagination, and I began to discipline myself. Had I a sweet cake or a juicy apple which I was dying to eat I would give it to another boy and go through the tortures of Tantalus, pained but satisfied. Had I some difficult task before me which was exhausting I would attack it again and again until it was done. So I practiced day by day from morning till night. At first it called for a vigorous mental effort directed against disposition and desire, but as years went by the conflict lessened and finally my will and wish became identical. . Nikola Tesla
Discipline is for professionals. Motivation is for amateurs.
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Discipline is for professionals. Motivation is for amateurs. J.R. Rim
So many wants distract man from his divine purpose.
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So many wants distract man from his divine purpose. Lailah Gifty Akita
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that...
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. Edmund Burke
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They have a special confidence in Christ, plus thoughtfulness plus faithfulness plus humility: for there are no things, in all creation, more beautiful, more rare than the so very disciplined and free, joyful and principled daughters of God. Criss Jami
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If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside. Michael Bassey Johnson
A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude...
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A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. Jacqueline Bisset
Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of...
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Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who are truly spiritual have lost all interest in the world and its beauties. Elisabeth Elliot
Is there any Great Teacher like Jesus Christ, He taught...
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Is there any Great Teacher like Jesus Christ, He taught his disciplines all that He knew.. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Though lip service is paid to the gospel of grace, many Christians live as if only personal discipline and self-denial will mold the perfect me. The emphasis is on what I do rather than on what God is doing. In this curious process God is a benign old spectator in the bleachers who cheers when I show up for morning quiet time. Brennan Manning
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If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive;and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attachedto you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless. Sun Tzu
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..The happy Warrior.. is he.. whose powers shed round him in the common strife, or mild concerns of ordinary life, a constant influence, a peculiar grace; but who, if he be called upon to face some awful moment to which Heaven has joined great issues, good or bad for human kind, is happy as a lover; and attired with sudden brightness, like a man inspired; and, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law in calmness made, and sees what he foresaw; or if an unexpected call succeed, come when it will, is equal to the need: he who, though thus endued as with a sense and faculty for storm and turbulence, is yet a soul whose master-bias leans to homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes; sweet images! which, wheresoe'er he be, are at his heart; and such fidelity it is his darling passion to approve; more brave for this, that he hath much to love:— . William Wordsworth
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Words and actions will separate a wise man from the crowd. Bamigboye Olurotimi
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The sacrifices we make to stay healthy, to look good, the tasty foods we skip, the guilt trips, the exercising - all these things require great discipline, care, and even a paradoxical, self-denying self-love of sorts in order to be properly executed. However it is regretful that so many of us today are not as passionate about our spiritual holiness as we are about our physical health. They are indeed both important - we should worship in every aspect of our lives - and one even, in a sense, entails the other. Although, this disproportion in said priorities is still very much expected: we humans have always taken a liking to trendiness and the temporal side of things, doing what is judged vainly in the eyes of man before that which is judged vitally and eternally in the eyes of God (i.e. "cleaning the outside of one's cup while leaving a filthy inside"). But in a way, it all goes to show that the man who fully hates discipline hates himself fully; for within the spirit is where The Holy One judges true wellness or malady. Criss Jami
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Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love, but respect for criticism; intelligence without pretense; humility without self-loathing; and a mind open, but with solid convictions. Criss Jami
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I respect traditional people - they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it is rarely found in youth. Criss Jami
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The Barbarian hopes – and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too. He will consume what civilization has slowly produced after generations of selection and effort, but he will not be at pains to replace such goods, nor indeed has he a comprehension of the virtue that has brought them into being. Discipline seems to him irrational, on which account he is ever marvelling that civilization, should have offended him with priests and soldiers.. In a word, the Barbarian is discoverable everywhere in this, that he cannot make: that he can befog and destroy but that he cannot sustain; and of every Barbarian in the decline or peril of every civilization exactly that has been true. We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles. Hilaire Belloc
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While the government is "studying" and funding and organizing its Big Thought, nothing is being done. But the citizen who is willing to Think Little, and, accepting the discipline of that, to go ahead on his own, is already solving the problem. A man who is trying to live as a neighbor to his neighbors will have a lively and practical understanding of the work of peace and brotherhood, and let there be no mistake about it - he is doing that work.. A man who is willing to undertake the discipline and the difficulty of mending his own ways is worth more to the conservation movement than a hundred who are insisting merely that the government and the industries mend their ways.(pg.87, "Think Little"). Wendell Berry
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No matter how sweet is smells, if you know it will give you a discomfort later, don't even attempt to taste it. Discipline yourself to stay out of sin! Israelmore Ayivor
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With discipline, dedication and diligence, you will achieve the goal. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. Ann Landers
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You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have. Criss Jami
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It was a common saying among the Christians in the primitive Church, "The soul and the body make a man; the spirit and discipline make a Christian;" implying, that none could be real Christians, without the help of Christian discipline. But if this be so, is it any wonder that we find so few Christians; for where is Christian discipline John Wesley
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Healthy boys grow into healthy men. Clayton Lessor MA
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According to most studies on the subject, boys who grow up without fathers grow up at a disadvantage. Clayton Lessor MA
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Teaching a boy to be a man is the primary job of a father. Clayton Lessor MA
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There’s a wound most troubled boys share, which, at its core, comes from the feeling that they don’t have their father’s unconditional love. Clayton Lessor MA
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When a boy feels as if no one cares about him, or as if he will never amount to anything, he truly believes it doesn’t matter what he does. Clayton Lessor MA
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Despite what you might believe right now, your son’s future is bright. You only need the right tools to help him get there. Clayton Lessor MA
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It’s time to stop dreaming about who you want your son to be and help him become the healthy, happy, and successful man he’s supposed to be. Clayton Lessor MA
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Healing, it turns out, is a journey. It doesn’t happen all at once. Clayton Lessor MA
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Train your Children with Patience, Correct them in Love, Don't Discipline them out of hatred Jaachynma N.E. Agu
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Mechanics of Mind: I feel the greatest source of despair stems not from what we do on a daily basis, but the pace at which our mind thinks vis-a-vis our progression in real life that matters - the greater the gap the more the despair! Ramana Pemmaraju
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Anything or everything can happen. You determine how good or bad they are Constancev Chuks Friday
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But… all I said was that I was scared." After what you got to experience? That's smart, kid, " I said. "I'm scared, too. Every time something like this happens, it scares me. But being strong doesn't get you through. Being smart does. I've beaten people and things who were stronger than I was, because they didn't use their heads, or because I used what I had better than they did. It isn't about muscle, kiddo, magical or otherwise. It's about your attitude. About your mind." She nodded slowly and said, "About doing things for the right reasons." You don't throw down like this just because you're strong enough to do it, " I said. "You do it because you don't have much choice. You do it because it's unacceptable to walk away, and still live with yourself later." She stared at me for a second, and then her eyes widened. "Otherwise, you're using power for the sake of using power." I nodded. "And power tends to corrupt. It isn't hard to love using it, Molly. You've got to go in with the right attitude or…" Or the power starts using you, " she said. She'd heard the argument before, but this was the first time she said the words slowly, thoughtfully, as if she'd actually understood them, instead of just parroting them back to me. Then she looked up. "That's why you do it. Why you help people. You're using the power for someone other than yourself. Jim Butcher
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Believe in yourselves as sons and daughters of God, men and women with unlimited potential to do good in the world. Believe in personal virtue. There is no substitute for it anywhere under the. heavens. Believe in your power to discipline yourselves against the evils which could destroy you. Believe in one another as the greatest generation ever yet to live upon the earth. Gordon B. Hinckley
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The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child. Danny Silk
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The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it. Criss Jami
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Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage. Thucydides
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Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage. Edward M. Hallowell
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Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline Buzz Aldrin
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Don't let your imperfections conveniently excuse you from having discipline. Have the courage to work through your imperfections. Matthew Donnelly
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Self-discipline, self-realization and self-reliance. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert agent, professions that require a great deal of bravery and risk and putting oneself in grave danger in order to complete the mission. Even though I did not become all those things, and unless my predisposition, in its youngest years, already had me leaning towards them, the interest that was there still shaped my philosophies. To this day I honor risk and sacrifice for the good of others - my views on life and love are heavily influenced by this. . Criss Jami
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Whether you are trying to finish a race or a book or that hard conversation you've been avoiding, the training leading up to that event is what makes it possible to face the fear & walk forward anyway. Quit complaining about discipline & start seeing it as a powerful tool for courageous living. Annie F. Downs
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Success = Wisdom + Courage + Discipline. KNOW what to do, be BRAVE enough to do it, and LEAD YOURSELF to doing it again and again. Ryan Lilly
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I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the places where life stores its scraps. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Persistence in the face of failure is of course important, but it is not the same thing as dedication or passion. Persistence is a discipline that you learn; devotion is a dedication you can't ignore. Stuart Firestein
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The only real difficulty with becoming disciplined is when you buy into the notion that happiness comes at the price of sacrifice. The reality is this: Discipline becomes freedom when you are doing what you love. Shannon L. Alder
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Even if you have been having sex for years with many people, you can still become a "secondary virgin." That occurs when you repent of previous sexual sins and then determine not to be intimate with anyone until you are married. It will require discipline to stay in the hallway of doors, but it still bring the sweet benefits of healthiness, greater self-respect, and above all, harmony with the King. He will honor you for doing what is right. James C. Dobson
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Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing. Elizabeth George