discipline quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."
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"Discipline is not a punishment. It’s a practice of self-control and self-mastery."
853
"The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the willingness to do what others won’t."
854
"Discipline is the key to success. Absolutely is. If you cannot force yourself to do something that you do not want to do, how are you ever gonna put yourself through the suffering required for greatness?"
855
"Conquer yourself rather than the world."
909
"The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves."
963
"Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice."
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"..you must meet any boredom head-on and not try to avoid or repress it. Throughout your life you will encounter tedious situations, and you must cultivate the ability to handle them with discipline."
139
"There is no difference between a hero and a coward in what they feel. It's what they do that makes them different. The hero and the coward feel exactly the same but you have to have the discipline to do what a hero does and to keep yourself from doing what the coward does."
142
"Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It’s really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition."
283
"When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers. We're doing exactly what TV commercials and pop materialist culture have been brainwashing us to do from birth. Instead of applying self-knowledge, self-discipline, delayed gratification and hard work, we simply consume a product."
314
"To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way."
624
"People who train every day do not want to train every day. They are not motivated to train every day. They have something else, they are disciplined."
852
"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible."
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