Discipline Quote by William Wilberforce

We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

— Michel de Montaigne

We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds; we have been drenched by many storms; we have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretence;…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“One of the best exercises in meekness we can perform is when the subject Is in ourselves. We must not fret over our own…

— Francis de Sale

...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other…

— Albert Camus

“This is so true that we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society.…

— Albert Camus

With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

— Gautama Buddha

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly…

— Dick Cheney

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

— C. S. Lewis

“Yet decency nagged at their reluctant hearts; and they acknowledged that, too, in unconscious phrases -- 'I fail to understand...', 'I cannot bring myself…

— Shirley Hazzard

It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne