Discipline Quotes — Page 38

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule, by which they may be exempted from the tyranny of caprice and of chance. They are glad to supply by external authority their own want of constancy and resolution, and court the government of others, when long experience has convinced them of their own inability to govern themselves.”

Men Order Discipline

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Rebecca Miller

Filmmaker, Writer

“Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.”

Important Film Discipline

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Stephen Covey

Author, Speaker

“I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.”

Motivational Commitment

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

“The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.”

Mind Discipline

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Robert Frost

Poet

“Life is tons of discipline.”

Life Is Discipline

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Simon Sinek

Author, Motivational Speaker

“It's the discipline to understand that the things that might make you rich or things might make you famous are sometimes worth pursuing and sometimes are not.”

Sometimes Might Discipline

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Simon Sinek

Author, Motivational Speaker

“Trust is maintained when values and beliefs are actively managed. If companies do not actively work to keep clarity, discipline and consistency in balance, then trust starts to break down.”

Discipline Balance Consistency

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Simon Sinek

Author, Motivational Speaker

“Rule books tell people what to do. Frameworks guide people how to act. Rule books insist on discipline. Frameworks allow for creativity.”

Book Creativity Discipline

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Sri Aurobindo

Philosopher, Poet, Politician

“Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.”

Discipline Force Contact

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Stephen Harper

Politician

“I do think that all economies need a sense of fiscal discipline especially over the midterm and if you are in the middle of a debt crisis you can't borrow your way out of a debt crisis. That's logically impossible.”

Thinking Needs Discipline

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Stephen Jay Gould

Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist

“[E]volutionists sometimes take as haughty an attitude toward the next level up the conventional ladder of disciplines: the human sciences. They decry the supposed atheoretical particularism of their anthropological colleagues and argue that all would be well if only the students of humanity regarded their subject as yet another animal and therefore yielded explanatory control to evolutionary biologists.”

Animal Attitude Discipline

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

“It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour.”

Discipline Sake Fruit

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