#discipline

In the afternoon the digestion of the meal deprives me of the incomparable lightness which characterizes the fast days. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#christianity #fasting #spiritual-disciplines #experience

When I walk in the forest just before the meal, while reciting the scriptural phrase that I "meditate" for that day, spiritual joy comes over me as if by appointment. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#christianity #fasting #spiritual-discipline #experience

When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have cheated me. You called me to be a prophet against the people that I love, and all that I proclaim is words of doom and judgement.' And yet if I say "I will shut up", I can't. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#doom #judgement #prophecy #rebellion #speaking-up

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. ↗

— Ann Landers

#character #class #cockiness #discipline #money

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#discipline #life #life

If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering. ↗

— Jeff Goins

#inspirational #motivational #perseverance #struggle #inspirational

[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#perfection #perseverance #personal-growth #self-discipline #success

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#inspirational #truth #writing #inspirational

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#discipline #fly #free #kind #me

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving. ↗

— William Baldwin

#ethic #gift #giving #instilling #keeps