Best discipline & energy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.”

Belief Energy Discipline Selfish Generosity Unhappiness Selfless Misguided

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.”

Thinking Life Whole Light Action Energy Emotion Practice Darkness Awareness Discipline Enlightenment Appropriate Ritual Mastery Self Mastery Egomania

Book:Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

“In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.”

Ifs Order Winning Energy Loses Effort Pay Discipline Disappointment Fulfillment Discontent

Book:Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.”

Spirit Energy Discipline Determination Performances Baseball Enthusiasm Vigor Pluck Eagerness American Spirit Sagacity Exponents Vim

Book:America's national game: historic facts concerning the beginning evolution, development, and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories, and its votaries

Source: America's national game: historic facts concerning the beginning evolution, development, and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories, and its votaries

“It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. Art is confidence. Technique makes it possible to achieve artistic greatness, but doesn't guarantee it. The great piano artists are not the ones who are best playing Clementi exercises.”

Art Artist Energy Practice Achieve Greatness Discipline Exercise Capable Art Is Technique Artistic Damn Piano Guarantees

Author:Dirk Benedict

“If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all our substance and energies, leaving us nothing of value to contribute to the commonwealth.”

Ifs Should Self Problem Would Be Values Energy Democracy Taken Failing Discipline Leaving Substance Lacking Self Discipline Commonwealth Personal Problems

Author:Margery Wilson

“What we should be doing [in US] is accelerating every year our efforts to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, have a cleaner energy future, have much more energy conservation. And this won't hurt anybody. This will create a new economy for America, if we've got the discipline to do it.”

Ifs Should Years America Energy Hurt Effort Economy Discipline Gas Conservation Emissions Cleaners Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Energy Conservation

Author:William J. Clinton

“The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don?t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they don?t, but those things are easy enough to learn - but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren?t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Enough Problem Energy Easy Failing Failure Discipline Management Marketing Finance Operations Owners Insatiable Time And Energy Insatiable Need

Author:Michael Gerber

“I was in acting classes from the age of 9, dance classes, music classes - my mom put a lot of energy and attention into me, so no matter what happened in my life, I always had this basis of discipline. So I really worked hard for everything I had from a very early age.”

Matter Hard Age Energy Acting Attention Class Happened Mom Discipline Bases No Matter What My Mom Acting Classes Dance Class

Author:Milla Jovovich

“It's mental discipline that sets one apart, the ability to think differently and to generate energy in the right direction.”

Thinking Energy Ability Discipline Right Direction

Author:Sachin Tendulkar

“We have weathered the worst storms and the safety of the shore, though distant, is in sight. We can look to the future with robust confidence provided we do not relax and fritter away our energies in internal dissensions. There never was greater need for discipline and unity in our ranks. It is only with united effort and faith in our destiny that we shall be able to translate the Pakistan of our dreams into reality.”

“I think passion gives you the energy to do what is right, and discipline makes sure you do what is right. So I look at them as kind of cousins maybe.”

Thinking Giving Looks Kind Passion Energy Discipline Cousin

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Surviving the grind of 18-hour days and getting up at four in the morning to work out for an hour so I'd have the energy to do it again the next day. I did not know I had that discipline. I did not know I had the discipline to learn a seven-page scene in three hours to shoot that day or the next day. I didn't know that I was capable of realizing that potential.”

Energy Realizing Hours Morning Discipline Scene Capable Work Out Surviving Grind

Author:Richard Schiff

“The way I understand composition and form and my ability to enter into material all comes from my disciplines and my commitment as a painter - my energy, my arm, my eyes, my sense of space and form and time. It's a wonderful realm for me. I never leave it.”

Eye Energy Ability Wonderful Discipline Commitment Painter Composition

Author:Carolee Schneemann

“Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.”

World Way Energy Discipline Speech Mouths Bliss Serenity Filling Exhausting Preventing Spilling Rupture

Book:The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.”

“Tumultuouness,if coupled to discipline and cool mind,is not such a bad sort of thing.That unless one wants to live a stunningly boring life,one ought to terms with one`s darker side ad one`s darker energies”

Ifs Want Mind Energy Sides Term Ought Discipline Boring Ads Boring Life Darker Side

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.”

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Book:De Quincey's Writings: Essays on philosophical writers and other men of letters. 1854-60. [v. 14 stereotyped

Source: De Quincey's Writings: Essays on philosophical writers and other men of letters. 1854-60. [v. 14 stereotyped

“To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of the world. Its acquirement is the result of discipline, of energy in the deep sense. That is why there are so few great dancers.”

World Energy Results Emotional Discipline Degrees Elements Highest Dance Nervous Dancer Concentration Possessed

Author:Martha Graham

“Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.”

Looks Energy Perfect Discipline Achievement Let Me Accomplish Insanity Trust In God Self Discipline Spectators Superhuman Perfect Life Keystones Uninterested

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern business and academic life, but the supreme energy and disciplined curiosity required to cut new grooves.”

Life Running Energy Work Business Cutting Modern Discipline Essence Curiosity Busy Supreme Academic Back And Forth Groove Running Back Academic Life Modern Business

Author:Hugh Nibley

“I've seen some springs that ended up being terrible winters. We human beings are gregarious. We can't live alone. For our lives to be possible, we depend on society. It's one thing to overturn a government or block the streets. But it's a different matter altogether to create and build a better society, one that needs organization, discipline and long-term work. Let's not confuse the two of them. I want to make it clear: I feel sympathetic with that youthful energy, but I think it's not going anywhere if it doesn't become more mature.”

“I cannot pursue my architecture without considering the minimization of energy consumption, simple and direct technologies, a respect for site, climate, place and culture. Together, these disciplines represent for me a fantastic platform for experimentation and expression. Of particular importance is the junction of the rational and the poetic resulting hopefully in works that resonate and belong to where they reside.”

“[Fatherhood] is everything.... The hardest job in the world, the most rewarding job in the world.... We put in long days. And to go home and have dinner with your kids, and have to discipline one of them who's out of line, and still have the energy for that is.... I can't explain the fulfillment of that, but it is everything.”

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Author:Brad Pitt

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