188 Quotes About Self-discipline
- Author Henry Ward Beecher
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.
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- Author Rene Descartes
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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- Author T.J. Stiles
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What distinguished him in a moment of crisis was his self-command.
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- Author David McCullough
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A veteran artist counsels a less experienced one to start a painting using colors in the middle range so that the painter can move to more extreme colors as the work progresses.
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- Author Jean Edward Smith
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Eisenhower on Patton: "Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.
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- Author Sherry Turkle
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If you feel it right now, on the Internet, you can tell them right now; you don't have to wait for anything.
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- Author Barbara W. Tuchman
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I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon
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- Author David Pietrusza
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John F. Kennedy responded, as he often did when at his best, skillfully mixing dollops of wit with, self-deprecation, and the principle of not-really-going-near-the-question.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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It is way more pleasurable to master yourself than it is to masturbate.
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