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Sunday, December 24, 2023

Post #3209

Keep neither a blunt knife nor an ill-disciplined looseness of tongue.
—Epictetus

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Sunday, September 12, 2021

Post #3089

Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.
—Mahatma Gandhi

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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Post #1953

That discipline which corrects the baseness of worldly passion; fortifies the heart with virtuous principles; enlightens the mind with useful knowledge and furnishes it with enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity, than all the provision we can make of the goods of fortune.
—Hugh Blair
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Friday, September 06, 2013

Post #1335

It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.
—Lew Wallace
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Monday, November 05, 2012

Post #1103

One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with your luck.
—Carl Zuckmayer
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Post #1082

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
—Thomas Jefferson

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Friday, September 14, 2012

Post #1059


It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
—Zig Ziglar
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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Post #922

My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.
—Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Post #690

Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.
—Sir William Osler
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Post #69

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

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The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

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