#discipline

We may well find that if we are to fulfill God's mandate on earth, we will need to communicate less often so we can communicate more. We will need to forsake the ease and the pace of quantity for the reflective significance of quality. ↗

— Tim Challies

#discipline #technology #communication

Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise. ↗

— Criss Jami

#design #discipline #eating #food #god

True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary. ↗

— Charles Eisenstein

#discipline #health #diet

The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better? ↗

— John C. Maxwell

#leadership #self-discipline #leadership

Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#writing #writing-advice #art

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, whether you like it or not. ↗

— Thomas Henry Huxley

#education #education

You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life. ↗

— Lynn Davies

#disciplined #got #life #person #succeed

From matters as crucial as the death of Jesus, to those as mundane as eating and drinking, the Bible presents the glo ry of God as the ultimate priority and the definitive criterion by which we should evaluate everything. ↗

— Donald S. Whitney

#spiritual-disciplines #death

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. ↗

— Jesse Owens

#awful #come #dedication #determination #effort

. . .fasting gives me singularly happy afternoons. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#christianity #fasting #spiritual-disciplines #experience