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Discipline (19)
Aphorisms 17
To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.
— John Bradshaw
Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.
— W. H. Auden
There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
— Seneca
Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
— Alexander Graham Bell
Be slow to make promises and quick to keep them!
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To succeed you must first improve, to improve you must first practice, to practice you must first learn, and to learn…
— Anonymous
Suffer the pain of discipline now or suffer the pain of regret later.
— Anonymous
Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth…
— Steve Jobs
Just by keeping promises to himself and others, a good samurai separates himself from the crowd.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
To finish first, you must first finish.
— Rick Mears
Out of the strain of the doing, into the peace of the done.
— Julia Louis Woodruff
Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.
— Gustave Flaubert
I have never met a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, did not appreciate the grind — the…
— Vince Lombardi
Use it or lose it.
— Anonymous
Pleasure belongs to the donkey.
— Türk Anonim
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
— Charles Darwin
Discipline equals freedom.
— Jocko Willink