Sunday, November 19, 2006

Self-Discipline

The ability to test desire by reason...to be resolute and ever in readiness to end natural vent and pain.
~Aristotle~

I defined discipline in the beginning of life as the choice of achieving what you really want by doing things you don't really want to do.
~John C. Maxwell~

All worthwhile men have good thoughts, good ideas, and good intentions, but precious few of them ever translate those into action.
~John Hancock Field~

When we are foolish, we want to conquer the world. When we are wise, we want to conquer ourselves.
~John C. Maxwell~

The price of greatness is responsibility.
~Winston Churchill~

It is true - when you do the things you ought to do when you ought to do them, the day will come when you will do the things you want to do when you want to do them. Hard work is the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.
~John C. Maxwell~

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
~John D. Rockerfeller Jr.~

Success depends not merely on how well you do the things you enjoy, but how conscientiously you perform those duties you don't.
~John C. Maxwell~

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
~Winston Churchill~

Everyone to who much is given, from him much will be required~Jesus Christ in Luke 12:48~
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

~Abraham Lincoln~

I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline.
~Vince Lombardi~

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on
~Louis L'Amour, on when asked the key to his writing style

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