“Patient endurance and self-discipline mean we submit to the present moment as it is, not as we would like it to be.” — Amos Smith Copy Share Image
Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
I learn more from creative people in other disciplines than I do even from other architects because I think they have a… — Tom Kundig Copy Share Image
“Your habits shape your reality. Small, disciplined actions lead to massive results over time” — Glody Kikonga Copy Share Image
I never had to try as a kid to stay in shape. In a way, there was no willpower involved. — Jamie Bamber Copy Share Image
Language is too complex for a computer to understand. It's not going to be able to make sense of what people are… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline… — Yahya Jammeh Copy Share Image
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline. — William Hague Copy Share Image
You have to look in the mirror and really have an honest conversation with yourself and find the discipline to not eat… — Big Show Copy Share Image
I had a really great experience so far with film acting. And most experiences from most actors, I've heard, are not like… — Thomas Horn Copy Share Image
The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“Now, people’s biggest mental barriers in this world are lack of motivation and lack of discipline. They usually start out full of… — Michael Matthews Copy Share Image
“In meditation practice, we neither hold the mind very tightly nor let it go completely. If we try to control the mind,… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“she had to fight for qualities that had not been even in her vocabulary. Patience. Self-discipline. Self-control. Self-abnegation. Chastity. Adaptability to others… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
First, the skill of storytelling helps to galvanize your team. Second, the discipline of storytelling requires leaders to be clear about their… — Gary A. Klein Copy Share Image
In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
Protectionism in all its forms should be rejected, and efforts should be made to discipline measures that constitute barriers to trade. — Sushma Swaraj Copy Share Image
You don't need to stick to tough rules or overnight changes; you need not rely on hardcore discipline that makes you hate… — Kathy Freston Copy Share Image
“They tried to teach you to make lists in grade school, remember? Back when your day planner was the back of your… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
“The arts and soldiering took time to acquire – time and discipline and desire. No, he was up against bullies. And bullies… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
My mother gave me the discipline to follow my dreams. You know: you can do what you want as long as you… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success. — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
“The ubiquitous faculty of conscience is ever ready, either as a silent witness or a prodding disciplinarian, thus rendering the offender susceptible… — Vincent Okay Nwachukwu Copy Share Image
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead to power — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“This is central to understanding the nature of motivation, as well as its failures (e.g., during depression, where there is inhibition of… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Well, of course one must have concentration. Courage. Self-control. That goes without saying. But more important than these, one must have... I… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
“Disciples are learners who submit to regimens (like worship and service) and disciplines (like prayer and fasting) for the long haul, as… — D. Brent Laytham Copy Share Image
Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits,… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
Computing has gone from something tiny and specialized to something that affects every walk of life. It doesn't make sense anymore to… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
“Let me go." Holding her with gentle implacability, he loomed nearer. His answer was a whisper upon her tingling lips. "Oh, no,… — Anna Campbell Copy Share Image
Sometimes I train in the middle of the night, all on my own. Can't sleep, don't want to sleep, get up, go… — Conor McGregor Copy Share Image
The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the stunt world, fights and vehicles are often two different disciplines. — David Leitch Copy Share Image
