#discipline

It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as eminently inspiring and even miraculous. ↗

— Robert Greene

#practice #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

‎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. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#resilience #self-discipline #inspirational

Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence ,Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm!! ↗

— Pablo

#belief #confidence #discipline #enthusiasm #inspiration

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#discipline #freedom #freedom

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important. ↗

— John Boorman

#both #both sides #david #disciplined #englishman

I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions. ↗

— Anthony Braxton

#continue #discipline #esoteric #experience #i

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world. ↗

— Anthony Braxton

#could #creator #discipline #discovered #gift

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#discipline #either #else #natural #others

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human. ↗

— John Galliano

#believe #cry #discipline #human #i