Discipline Quotes
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No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know how to recognize an opportunity in war, and take it, benefits you more than anything else. Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many. Discipline in war counts more than fury.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I learned a lot from being in hell. I learned discipline. I learned that I choose what to put in my body.
Bernard Hopkins
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Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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“Once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success”
Alex Ferguson
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The more you discipline yourself to use your time well, the happier you will feel and the better will be the quality of your life in every area.
Brian Tracy
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Many dogs grow up without rules or boundaries. They need exercise, discipline and affection in that order.
Cesar Millan
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Reading is at the threshold of spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it. There are, however, certain cases, certain pathological cases, so to speak, of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline and assume the task, through repeated stimulation, of continuously reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the spirit.
Marcel Proust
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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
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All through my career I've written 1,000 words a day - even if I've got a hangover. You've got to discipline yourself if you're professional. There's no other way.
J. G. Ballard
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For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
Tertullian
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The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
Gary W. Keller
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The heart of creativity is discipline.
William Bernbach
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It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.
Suzanne Vega
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I practice really hard, every day. I started that about 13 or 14 years ago; it's a discipline now. But the writing is a whole other thing. It'll come from handling a guitar, mostly; thinking up little guitar riffs. I was born and raised a rock 'n' roll guy, and that's the rock 'n' roll ethic, at least through my experience.
John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
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Southern people are raised with a work ethic. My son is 5 years old and does chores. My mom was a dance teacher, and the training and discipline it takes to be a dancer I've carried with me in Hollywood.
Jaime Pressly
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Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.
John Wooden
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The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.
Alexander Paterson
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I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline.
John McCain
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No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were narrowly defined, and researchers were often classically trained in only one discipline. In the late 19th century, knowledge of science was not a requisite for success in other walks of life.
Peter Agre
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Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.
Rabindranath Tagore
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The JBU discipline process occurs in response to specific behaviors demonstrated repeatedly over time ... (and) that are contrary to the biblical values expressed in the community covenant.
Andrea Phillips
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Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.
Jocko Willink