This is how [the] sport has contributed to my personality, toughness and discipline. I have a plan, and I work on it.… — Svetlana Khorkina Copy Share Image
Over the past decade I have watched many friends go through graduate school and write dissertations. Through that process, I have seen… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
“Under the system of centralized control without constitutional checks and balances, the war spirit identifies dissent with treason, the pursuit of private… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One thing I am sure of in my Total Money Makeover: I had to quit telling myself that I had innate discipline… — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness.… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
The most self-disciplined people in the world aren't born with it, but at one point they start to think differently about self… — Rory Vaden Copy Share Image
“Sweetest of all is liberty. This we have chosen and this we pay for. We have embraced the laws of Lykurgus, and… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
“Of courage undaunted, possessing a firmness and perseverance of purpose which nothing but impossibilities could divert from its direction, careful as a… — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they've got terrible temperaments. And that is why we say that… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In an age when schools are facing significant budgetary restraints, there is a greater need than ever to make chess available to… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“..:It is important that we excercise the gifts we have been given. It's important that we develop and live in constant discipline.… — Rafael Garcia Copy Share Image
The greatest step toward success is self confidence. The greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“Anyone want to help me start PAPA, Parents for Alternatives to Punishment Association? (There is already a group in England called ‘EPPOCH’… — Kelly Bryson Copy Share Image
Reading is at the threshold of spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it. There are, however,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
To be disciplined does not mean being silent, abstaining, or doing only what one thinks one may undertake without risk; it is… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
“It may well be that the Bolsheviks' greatest strength in 1917 was not strict party organization and discipline (which scarcely existed at… — Sheila Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Just remember, without discipline, a clear strategy, and a concise plan, the speculator will fall into all the emotional pitfalls of the… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
I learned that unless you start working, if you're frozen out of work, you will never learn the habits, the discipline, the… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuit—for any season—sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
If you watch Rafael Nadal play tennis, you can only respond with amazement and great admiration. He is an incredible athlete with… — Steffi Graf Copy Share Image
“Most cases of child discipline may be solved by establishing structure that will lead to the reenforcement of the biblical principles established… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
Nothing fires the warrior’s heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Ninety-nine percent talent…ninety-nine percent discipline…ninety-nine percent work. He must never be satisfied with what he does. It is never as good as… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Kant provides a more helpful answer. For him, these first semblances of virtue can be explained in terms of discipline, in other… — Andre Compte-Sponville Copy Share Image
“[A] society that insists on stressing self-expression over self-control generally gets exactly what it deserves. The sulking teenager who insists, "It's not… — Charles J. Sykes Copy Share Image
It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free… — Wendy Farley Copy Share Image
“There is a vast difference between being a Christian and being a disciple. The difference is commitment. Motivation and discipline will not… — Greg Ogden Copy Share Image
“But should we accept this negative view of power? Is power all bad? Specifically, can Christians share in this devaluation of power… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in… — Richard Page Copy Share Image
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“First-century discipleship was expressed as a servant-master relationship (see Matthew 10:24). Once accepted as a disciple, a young man started as a… — Bill Hull Copy Share Image
Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties,… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Live theatre is great. I loved doing the League live because you get that element of spontaneity, but then when I'm doing… — Reece Shearsmith Copy Share Image
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![“[A] society that insists on stressing self-expression over self-control generally gets exactly what it deserves. The sulking teenager who insists, "It's not fair!" is not referring to a standard of equity and justice that any ethicist would recognize. He is, instead, giving voice to the vaguely…” quote by Charles J. Sykes](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1eb/charles-j-sykes-48806_black-and-white_a-society-that-insists-on-stressing-self_1990922.jpg)
