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Samuel Johnson

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

Topic: Discipline
Location: Montana
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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Be tolerant with others and stick with yourself. — Marcus Aurelius

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The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment. — William Arthur Ward

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I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeeded. — Michael Jordan

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Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please. — Benjamin Franklin

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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. — Henry Ford

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Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. — Jim Rohn

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I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business. — Benjamin Franklin

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There is no luck except where there is discipline. — Irish Proverb

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If wishes were horses, beggars might ride. — John Ray

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Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principle. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. — William Adams

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The end is near as soon as you begin to doubt yourself. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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Fall seven times, stand up eight. — Japanese Proverb

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Mountains are made from grains of sand. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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You learn in life the only person you can really correct and change is yourself. — Katharine Hepburn

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Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. — Napoleon Hill

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The world belongs to the energetic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. — Mark Twain

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Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.

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