"Discipline enables you to think first and act second."
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"It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it."
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"In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command."
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"Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world."
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"You must know the big ideas in the big disciplines, and use them routinely - all of them, not just a few. Most people are trained in one model - economics, for example - and try to solve all problems in one way. You know the old saying: to the man with a hammer, the world looks like a nail. This is a dumb way of handling problems."
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"The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time."
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"The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want."
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"Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you."
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"All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just."
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""It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet.""
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"Learn to convert the discomfort of discipline into the satisfaction of personal growth."
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"Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation"
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"Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor."
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"Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy."
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"If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be. I think of dieting, then I eat pizza. I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier — unfortunately."
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"The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it."
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"In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching."
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"Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground."
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"Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace."
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"Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?"
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