Quotes on Discipline

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.Aristotle

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Reason should direct and appetite obey.Cicero

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He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.Philip Massinger

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If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.William Boetcker

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Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is fit to discipline others or can impose discipline on others.William Feather

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To rule self and subdue our passions is the more praiseworthy because so few know how to do it.Francesco Guicciardini

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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.Seneca

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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.Arnold Bennett

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The only lasting form of discipline is self-imposed discipline.Dale Brown

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