“While everyone exercises influence, the size and strength of our influence depends upon our effort. No one leads well without paying the price of discipline. As we push ourselves to grow and to learn, we enlarge our sphere of influence.” WellsGrowsLeadershipEffortInfluenceDependsDisciplineExerciseSelf ImprovementSizeImprovementSpheresSphere Of Influence Author:John C. Maxwell
“My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing. I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.” SelfWholeLawIndividualBeliefTheoryDisciplineFundamentalsSakeImprovementSelf ControlSocial ChangeOrdinances Author:Ida Tarbell
“The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands far more chance of rising to a position affording him opportunity to exercise his organizing abilities than the fellow who dawdles along without chart or compass, without plan or purpose, without self-improvement and self-discipline.” MenSelfYoungPurposeReadingOpportunityChanceAbilityStudyPlansPositionHabitDisciplineExerciseSelf ImprovementOrganizationFellowsImprovementYoung ManRisingAddressesAssociationSelf DisciplineEarnestCompassAffording Author:B. C. Forbes
“I learned that unless you start working, if you're frozen out of work, you will never learn the habits, the discipline, the values of cooperation and improvement unless you get a job, and that's what statistic show. It's, unless you get a job and keep it, you will not get out of poverty. If you do, you have a very good chance of working out of poverty.” IfsShowsJobsValuesChancePovertyHabitDisciplineVery GoodWork OutImprovementCooperationFrozenGood Chance Author:Charles Koch
“The arts are statistically proven to increase independent thinking, creativity, discipline, balance, and academic improvement in children.” ThinkingChildrenArtCreativityBalanceDisciplineIncreaseIndependentImprovementAcademicProvenIndependent Thinking Author:Mya
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.” MenLiteratureChangeIgnoranceDisciplineCircumstancesSelf ImprovementBoundsImprovementAnxiousSelf DisciplineUnwillingA Man ThinkethPersonal Sacrifice Book:As a Man Thinketh Source: As a Man Thinketh