"Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure."
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"My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others."
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"You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred"
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"Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline."
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"Discipline is the soul of an army."
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"Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages."
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"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire."
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"To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing."
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"Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities."
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"The smallest of disciplines, practiced every day, start an incredible process that can change our lives forever."
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"It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself."
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"Success is created through the performance of a few small daily disciplines that stack up over time to produce achievements far beyond anything you could have ever planned for."
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"All these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it is pure, all truths flash upon it in a minute; all truth in the universe will manifest in your heart, if you are sufficiently pure."
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"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance."
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"The discipline of desire is the background of character."
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"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."
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"Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."
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"As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion."
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"The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline."
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"The truly free person in society is a disciplined person."
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