"The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions."
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"Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe and to act wisely."
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"Until you have the inner discipline that brings calmness of mind, external facilities and conditions will never bring the joy and happiness you seek. On the other hand, if you possess this inner quality, calmness of mind, a degree of stability within, even if you lack the various external factors that you would normally require to be happy, it will still be possible to live a happy and joyful life."
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"Traders lose because the game is hard, or out of ignorance, or lack of discipline or because of both."
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"I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition."
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"Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild."
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"One discipline always leads to another discipline."
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"God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking."
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"Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities."
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"I liked being in the Marines. They gave me discipline I could live with. By the time I got out, I was able to cope with things on a more realistic level."
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"It's best to start the discipline of generosity when the amounts are small. It's easy to give ten cents out of a dollar; it's a little harder to give a hundred thousand out of a million."
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"By developing your discipline and courage, you can refuse to let other people's mood swings govern your financial destiny. In the end, how your investments behave is much less important than how you behave."
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"We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in."
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"My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too."
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"One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be."
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"Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline."
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"One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas."
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"When the mind is turbulent, uncontrolled and restless, it is like a pond of water that is filled with mud. Therefore when we look within ourselves, all we perceive is the mud of our material conceptions of life. But when the mind is still through discipline, and through yoga, it is like a pond that has no waves and no turbulence. Then we can perceive through that crystal clear water the eternal nature of our soul."
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"It’s up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible. It’s a question of will and discipline."
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"Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it."
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