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“The most powerful control we can ever attain, is to be in control of ourselves.”
― Chris Page

tags: attitude, discipline, inspirational

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“If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

tags: alter-ego, bell, better, change, character, different, discipline, good, good-influence, goodness, honesty, honour, humility, inside, keep-quiet, moderation, modest, modesty, mute, personal, personality, real, respect, sealed-lips, shut-up, silence, special, unknown, unseen

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“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.

tags: desire, discipline

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“Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)”
― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

tags: discipline, dreams, words

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“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 focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.”
― Michael Chabon

tags: discipline, writing, writing-craft, writing-life

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