Quotes About Discipline

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

We first make our habits, and our habits then make us.

The object of concentrating upon a definite aim is to train the mind until it forms the habit of focusing upon that aim.

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through repetition, you will form a habit—a good habit—that will help make your future a success.

Discipline comes through self-control. This means that one must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Victor Hugo says: "He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of his time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all his operations.

Many a man stops work with the clock. He leaves his day's work with Ragged Edges. He is the man who starts his days with Ragged Edges, and finally rounds out an incomplete life. Finish up as you Go.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Procrastination, the opposite of decision, is a common enemy which practically everyone must conquer.

Sexual overindulgence may not only destroy reason and willpower, but it may also lead to either temporary or permanent mental dysfunction.

Self-Control must needs be made up of Patience, the ability to keep Still when you feel like Talking right out, and the iron holding down of your own Self for the sake of the Bigger Hours. No man ever won anything without first winning Himself. You are a strong Human bundle of Passion, Red Pepper — and Power. Your Mixing of these things in wise proportion and mastering them will mold you into a sure Success. Try, for — You can Be what you Will, if you Will to Be.

Therefore I will devote 10 minutes daily to demanding of myself the development of self-confidence .

Steve Jobs: "People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man.

Amateurs in any discipline are the best, if you can connect with them. Unlike dilettantes, career professionals are to knowledge what prostitutes are to love.

We are the empirical decision makers who hold that uncertainty is our discipline, and that understanding how to act under conditions of incomplete information is the highest and most urgent human pursuit.

Engineers can compute but not define, mathematicians can define but not compute, economists can neither define nor compute.

that he felt proud of his sticking to his strategy for so long

Nero believes that risk-conscious hard work and discipline can lead someone to achieve a comfortable life with a very high probability. Beyond that, it is all randomness: either by taking enormous (and unconscious) risks, or by being extraordinarily lucky. Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.

provérbio de Sêneca no Tratado sobre a clemência a respeito do efeito reverso das punições. Ele escreveu: "O castigo repetido, enquanto esmaga o ódio de alguns, incita o ódio de todos […] assim como as árvores que foram podadas fazem brotar novamente incontáveis galhos". Pois

Many, like the great Roman statesman Cato the Censor, looked at comfort, almost any form of comfort, as a road to waste.1 He did not like it when we had it too easy, as he worried about the weakening of the will.

Today academics in abstract disciplines depend on one another's opinion, without external checks, with the severe occasional pathological result of turning their pursuits into insular prowess-showing contests.