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I can't think of anything that anyone has ever accomplished without having some sort of self-discipl...

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Cameron DiazThe Body Book: The Law of Hunger

Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights o...

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Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

wonderful people are made, not born – that the people I admired had achieved an unfakeable inner vir...

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Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, ...

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I'm not a parent myself, but I think the best solution at this point is to slap that child across th...

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When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say '...

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My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylight...

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Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; a...

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If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh ...

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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. ...

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Edmund BurkeReflections on the Revolution in France

It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far m...

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Edward GibbonThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Fasting may not be as easy as feasting, but after a while it is not too different. Both are extremes...

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Most of my writing life, to be perfectly honest, is not freaky, old-timey, voodoo-style Big Magic. M...

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Elizabeth GilbertBig Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a cert...

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Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was try...

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With practice, you build the road to accomplish your goals. Excellence lives in attention to detail....

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Oddly, with discipline, structure, and order, you will find freedom, anything is possible. Without i...

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Ethan HawkeRules for a Knight

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipli...

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become ...

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Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and m...

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Fulton J. SheenSeven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, ...

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Believe in yourselves as sons and daughters of God, men and women with unlimited potential to do goo...

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When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines hims...

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If people think I'm angry, I don't want to burst anybody's bubble. I like sometimes for people to be...

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The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words tur...

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One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

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Helen KellerThe Story of My Life

Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that some...

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Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one...

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For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail....

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The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will ...

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Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the...

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...the quickest, efficient, least expensive way to educate a man is to make it painful for him when ...

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As she put it, she knew of nothing so ravishing as having a child whom she could whip whenever she w...

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Jean-Jacques RousseauSpells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture

Discipline must be without control, without suppression, without any form of fear...It is not discip...

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But… all I said was that I was scared." After what you got to experience? That's smart, kid," I said...

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It must take a lot of self-discipline,' she said.'Oh, I don't know. I don't have much.' He felt hims...

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John CrowleyAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of t...

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Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of t...

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Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of t...

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Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of t...

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Among men, it seems, historically at any rate, the processes of coordination and disintegration foll...

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It was a common saying among the Christians in the primitive Church, "The soul and the body make a m...

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...[I]ron discipline does not preclude but presupposes criticism and contest of opinion within the P...

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Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached t...

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Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline simulated fear postulates courage simulated weaknes...

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If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Lose...

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Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing materi...

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It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by st...

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What is generally known as discipline in traditional schools is not activity, but immobility and sil...

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Maria MontessoriCreative Development in the Child: The Montessori Approach

I work with a great deal of discipline, although I usually take on more than I can handle and often ...

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All empires fall, eventually.” “But why? It’s not for lack of power. In fact, it seems to be the opp...

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You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is th...

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You know what's wrong with scientific power?... It's a form of inherited wealth... Most kinds of pow...

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Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authori...

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Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of powe...

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All the things that are worth doing, take time.

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot ac...

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Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon ...

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You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social ju...

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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

When I was a boy of seven or eight I read a novel untitled "Abafi" — The Son of Aba — a Servian tran...

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It was not about physical strength, Wit reminded himself. It was 90 percent mental, 10 percent physi...

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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

There is something in human pride that can stand big troubles, but we need the supernatural grace an...

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I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,2...

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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their mind...

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Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghe...

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Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerve...

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All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature...

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Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.

It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through ...

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To the extent that we believe we can skip steps, avoid the process, magically gain power through pol...

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Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in mo...

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Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in mo...

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It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through ...

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To the extent that we believe we can skip steps, avoid the process, magically gain power through pol...

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Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in mo...

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Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in mo...

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It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through ...

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To the extent that we believe we can skip steps, avoid the process, magically gain power through pol...

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Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in mo...

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Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in mo...

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It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through ...

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To the extent that we believe we can skip steps, avoid the process, magically gain power through pol...

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Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in mo...

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Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in mo...

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I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning ...

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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and...

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We need patient people who are able to endure the toughest disciplines.