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"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
"Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life"
Doug Coupland, Author
"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind, he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him"
Buddha, Leader
"There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself"
Louis XIV, Royalty
"Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds"
Lord Chesterfield, Statesman
"I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it"
Lord Chesterfield, Statesman
"I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive"
Lord Chesterfield, Statesman
"People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves"
Robert Collier, Author
"If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... Break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time"
Robert Collier, Author
"I'm against having emotions, not against using them"
Harvey Specter, Actor
"No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined"
Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman
"Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds"
Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint
"Be gentle to all and stern with yourself"
Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint
"He who keeps his cool best wins"
Norman Cousins, Author
"I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master"
Antonio Porchia, Poet
"The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery"
Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian
"Discipline is wisdom, and vice versa"
M. Scott Peck, Psychologist
"My worst quality is impatience"
Emma Thompson, Actress
"Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now"
Dennis Weaver, Actor
"There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks"
David Lloyd George, Statesman
"I don't think I have ever been out of control"
Bobby Knight, Coach
"Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives"
Tony Robbins, Author
"The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you"
J. K. Rowling, Author
"Whatever happens, take responsibility"
Tony Robbins, Author
"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them"
Jack Kerouac, Novelist
"Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised"
Ann Landers, Journalist
"I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions"
Enoch Powell, Politician
"Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men"
Miyamoto Musashi, Soldier
"I'm a perfectionist"
Kristi Yamaguchi, Athlete
"I'm too old to do things by half"
Lou Reed, Musician
"When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you"
Zig Ziglar, Author
"No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys"
Douglas Horton, Clergyman
"So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational"
Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist
"Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do"
Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher
"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self, past the ego"
Bell Hooks, Critic
"Procrastination is opportunity's assassin"
Victor Kiam, Businessman
"If you want to control other people, first control yourself"
Abu Bakr, Leader
"It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you"
Abu Bakr, Leader
"Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger"
Abu Bakr, Leader
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