“We don’t drift in good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.” — andy Stanley Copy Share Image
The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline combine those and you'll be pretty productive. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learned to discipline itself. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Behind every story of inspiration is a story of training, practice, discipline, and sacrifice. You must be willing to pay the price,” — T.R. Ragan Copy Share Image
You just want to have new experiences and work with new people, so the idea of working with someone outside of your… — Doug Sweetland Copy Share Image
The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Triathlon is a very friendly sport. You can make friends quite easily. You don't have to be the most talented person. I… — Helen Jenkins Copy Share Image
I feel that very strongly: having been an academic, having been tempted by the invitation to stay on to become a Ph.D.,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I also try to discipline myself when I get into a situation... and I'm trying to think of an answer, instead of… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
I would advise anyone who is at the start of a rest ritual like the Sabbath, to take it slowly and grow… — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
Our tendency is to be strong, self-sufficient, and dependent on our own willpower, but rather than try harder, we should reach out… — John Townsend Copy Share Image
The great shift... is the movement away from the value-laden languages of... the "humanities," and toward the ostensibly value-neutral languages of the… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
“But there was a discipline, it was just that we didn't understand. We thought he was formless, but I think now he… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
When I started acting, I had a really strong discipline of knowing that you had to be on time, knowing that you… — Jaime King Copy Share Image
Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and… — Syama Prasad Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of… — Victoria Ocampo Copy Share Image
“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any style of poetry. David J Delaney ©” — David J Delaney 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
“There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
What we misunderstand as a lack of personal power or self discipline is nothing but a lack of real desire. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you. — Leonard Orr Copy Share Image
I'm not very disciplined. I tend to write late at night because I get distracted during the day. — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
“Most people fail to live a disciplined life because they don’t feel like every single attempt matters.” — William Wyatt Copy Share Image
To reach the goals of your life, you need discipline, you need luck and you need something as important as these two:… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline. — Pete Carril Copy Share Image
A big part of willpower is having something to aspire to, something to live for. — Mark Shuttleworth Copy Share Image
Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless. — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Some men, who begin by saying that the world is a hell, often end by saying that it is a heaven when… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Dedication is wonderful, lively experience. It is intense effort and energy with discipline which culminate in meaningful end. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
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