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"I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially"
Denzel Washington, Actor
"An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind"
Anatole France, Novelist
"You can't hire someone to practice for you"
H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author
"Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways"
H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author
"Genius, at first, is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline"
George Eliot, Author
"Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins"
George Eliot, Author
"Those who can command themselves, command others"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one"
John Wooden, Coach
"The most wonderful result of all education is to make you do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not"
H. C. Andersen, Writer
"They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always"
Pierre Corneille, Dramatist
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it"
Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman
"Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character"
Calvin Coolidge, President
"Avoiding the phrase "I don't have time...", will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life"
Bo Bennett, Businessman
"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience"
Stanislaw Lec, Poet
"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self"
Napoleon Hill, Writer
"Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself"
Marilyn vos Savant, Author
"Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time"
Marilyn vos Savant, Author
"It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters"
Aesop, Author
"Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce"
Cesare Pavese, Poet
"Always do one thing less than you think you can do"
Bernard Baruch, Businessman
"In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves"
Bernard Baruch, Businessman
"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside!"
Wayne Dyer, Psychologist
"Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst"
Bryant H. McGill, Author
"The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained"
Alexis Carrel, Scientist
"Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it"
Peter Marshall, Clergyman
"You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings"
Pearl S. Buck, Novelist
"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work"
Pearl S. Buck, Novelist
"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within"
Earl Nightingale, Writer
"There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs - they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves"
Martin H. Fischer, Author
"I am a temperance Republican down to my toes"
Billy Sunday, Clergyman
"If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once!"
Walter Scott, Novelist
"Strength, instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives"
Clint Eastwood, Actor
"My ambition is handicapped by laziness"
Charles Bukowski, Poet
"Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability"
Roy L. Smith, Clergyman
"There isn't much I have to say that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do"
Ani DiFranco, Musician
"Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do"
Mencius, Philosopher
"Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others"
Mencius, Philosopher
"There is a high cost for low living"
Edwin Louis Cole, Author
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