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  • #1
    William  James
    “Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task”
    William James

  • #2
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    “Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows
    with the ability to say no to oneself.”
    Abraham Joshua Heschel

  • #3
    John F. MacArthur Jr.
    “Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and permits truth, virtue, and integrity to rule our minds instead.”
    John MacArthur Jr.

  • #4
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.”
    Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness

  • #5
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a disciplined or undisciplined state of mind. It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching.
    Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness

  • #6
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #7
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

  • #8
    “You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
    Olin Miller

  • #9
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #10
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #11
    Henry David Thoreau
    “I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours..”
    Thoreau, Henry David



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