#discipline

This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#discipline #muse #writing #art

football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. ↗

— Vince Lombardi Jr.

#football #sports #life

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#discipline #emotion #life

Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences. ↗

— Daniel J. Siegel

#discipline #education #education

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better? ↗

— Jane Nelson

#discipline #motivation #parenting #punishment #motivational

When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#motivational

Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within. ↗

— Dawson Trotman

#discipline #religion #religion

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

#discipline #virtue

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#self-mastery #will-power #justice

To make 2013 (or any other)your year, keep it simple: 1) Count your blessings first 2) Whatever you did last year, Do it better 3) Go step by step, One day at a time. 4) Create/make your own opportunities. 5) Believe in your abilities at all times, 6) Qutting is not an option. Keep Going. 7) Finish what you started ↗

— Pablo

#begin #belief #believe #blessings #discipline