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A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.
Ronald Reagan
You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.
Hannes Alfven
Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
Ann Patchett
Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.
Criss Jami
There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.
Louis XIV
No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
Miguel de Cervantes
It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.
Wilma Rudolph
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
Bertrand Russell
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Will Durant
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
Epictetus
A colt is worth little if it does not break its halter.
Proverb
There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.
Robert De Niro
He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory.
Jyrus
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.
Neil Gaiman
Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder
Science can be divided into an infinite number of disciplines, and the amount of knowledge that can be pursued in each discipline is limitless. The most critical piece of knowledge, then, is the knowledge of what is essential to learn and what isn't.
Leo Tolstoy
A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline.
John Dewey, Democracy and Educat
No one is free who does not lord over himself.
Claudius
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
Sir Walter Scott
