“All of your precious resources - time, energy, talent, passion, and money - should only go to the areas of your life or your business that are best, are fixable, and are indespensable. Otherwise, average sets in and [your life] does not become what it was designed to be.”
Source: Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward
“Christianity teaches righteousness, not rights. It emphasizes honor, not equality. A Christian's concern is what is owed to the other, not what is owed to himself.”
Source: Discipline: The Glad Surrender
“Discipline is the impossible conquered by the obstinate repetition of the possible.”
Source: A Philosophy of Walking
“Everything for the game.”
Source: The Real Ones
“A system without ownership
is a ghost.”
“Discipline is the quiet architect of greatness.”
“The greatest enemy one can have is being an enemy to oneself by stunting progress and refusing discipline that unlocks potential.”
“Think about your smallest happiness and endure your miserable moments because happiness comes along every once in awhile.”
“There are so many charlatans in the world of education. They teach for a couple of years, come up with a few clever slogans, build their websites, and hit the lecture circuit. In this fast-food-society, simple solutions to complex problems are embraced far too often. We can do better. I hope that people who read this book realize that true excellence takes sacrifice, mistakes, and enormous amounts of effort. After all, there are no shortcuts.”
Source: Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
“In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade…. The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance. – T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom”
Source: Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph