I used to be very disciplined about only buying three books ahead of what I was reading, but my husband corrupted me,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them ... They achieve it. They do not achieve it… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
I'm interested in Buddhism. Of all the organized religions, that to me is the only one that makes even vague sense. I… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
“The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it. That’s it. That” — Gary Keller Copy Share Image
The man-made laws have been made by men who have not perceived the final goal towards which they are making. And that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Without self-discipline a man drifts lower and lower, approximating more and more nearly to the beast, until at last he grovels, a… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Never fear dying, beloved. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about. Fear living...that… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He fought for a better world because he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego. — Wei Wu Wei Copy Share Image
“The discipline of witness takes seriously the biblical mandate of bearing witness to Jesus by building nonmanipulative relationships with eternity in view.” — Kenneth D. Boa Copy Share Image
The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Some people find the experience and practice of compassion as a spiritual discipline to be a more direct route to the transformation… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
I was in acting classes from the age of 9, dance classes, music classes - my mom put a lot of energy… — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there? — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“We feel very strongly that our own wisdom begins where that of the author leaves off and we could like him to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image