274 quotes found
“All empires fall, eventually. But why? Its not for lack of power. In fact, it seems to be the opposite. Their power lulls them into comfort. They become undisciplined. Those who had to earn power a...”
“Most kinds of power require a substantial sacrifice by whoever wants the power. There is an apprenticeship, a discipline lasting many years. Whatever kind of power you want. President of the compan...”
“The problem with patience and discipline is that it requires both of them to develop each of them.”
“Next morning I went over to Pauls for coffee and told him I had finished. Good for you, he said without looking up. Start the next one today.”
“If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.”
“You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to...”
“Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that outside the ghetto reign the lords of death, and that close by the train i...”
“All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.”
“The disciplined rule our world.”
“Great men have great discipline.”
“My son, my son. When I had my son I would explain all that to him when he was starry enough to like understand. But then I knew he would not understand or would not want to understand at all and wo...”
“Discipline is a kind of divine hand for the mankind on the matter of achieving great successes!”
“With discipline, you are able to maintain a higher tolerance for frustration, obstacles and negative emotions. Self-discipline allows you to obtain better health, better finances and a good work et...”
“When we procrastinate, we also put a hold on happiness.”
“Discipline is denying ourselves in the present so as to prepare better for the future.”
“Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs.”
“Discipline is the thing that makes you do what you might not want to, but you do it anyway because it's what you have to do in order to get what you want or desire.”
“Self discipline is the mother of success”
“The average person will take the excuses, but the leader will always take responsibilities”
“Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined perso...”
