#discipline

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches. ↗

— John Sununu

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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#discipline #get #hard #hard work #need

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine. ↗

— Tertullian

#discipline #doctrine #faith #index #judge

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility. ↗

— John Howard

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We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. ↗

— Jim Rohn

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I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia. ↗

— John Woolman

#back #carefully #concern #discipline #enlargement

Discipline I am old and I have had more than my share of good and bad. I've had love and sorrow, seen sudden death and been left alone and of love bereft. I thought I would never love again and I thought my life was grief and pain. The edge between life and death was thin, but then I discovered discipline. I learned to smile when I felt sad, I learned to take the good and the bad, I learned to care a great deal more for the world about me than before. I began to forget the "Me" and "I" and joined in life as it rolled by: this may not mean sheer ecstasy but is better by far than "I" and "Me. ↗

— Meryl Gordon

#discipline #life #love #old-age #age

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#always #among #breed #children #discipline

The most powerful control we can ever attain, is to be in control of ourselves. ↗

— Chris Page

#discipline #inspirational #attitude

It was more than just material prosperity. America in 1960 was a country where restraint and boundaries were the natural conditions in all arenas. People married younger and stayed married; even with those added twenty-eight million, there were fewer divorces in 1960 than there had been a decade earlier. People did not have children unless they were married—only 2.5 percent of children were born out of wedlock, though the number in black households was disturbingly high—some 20 percent. ↗

— Jeff Greenfield

#discipline #change