"I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses."
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"Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not."
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"Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will."
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"Given the prevailing lack of discipline, it would have been impossible to use Congolese machine-gunners to defend the base from air attack: they did not know how to handle their weapons and did not want to learn."
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"It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives."
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"When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself."
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"Don't bother with New Year's resolutions if you don't have the discipline to put a plan in place to actually achieve them."
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"A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms."
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"Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic or fear."
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"The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind."
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"Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline."
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"Discipline must come through liberty."
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"If you break a discipline once, the next transgression becomes much easier."
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"Rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30 years has undermined stability"
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"Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline"
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"When members unite with the church, they should not only make a profession of faith in Christ (that is essential), but in light of 2 Corinthians 10:6 and Hebrews 13:17, etc., they should also agree to submit to the authority and discipline of the church, should they be found delinquent in doctrine or life."
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"It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline."
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"Dreams get you started; discipline keeps you going."
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"Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself; 'Are all the disciplines that I'm currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?'"
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"Remember that all success is based on long-term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way."
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