“If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.” IfsSelfWinningPerfectMastersVictoryDisciplineTriumphMasteryYou Can Win Author:Thomas a Kempis
“I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue; in fact, when people talk about me being the first female governor, I'm a little absent from that discussion, because I've never thought of gender as an issue. In sports, you learn self-discipline, healthy competition, to be gracious in victory and defeat, and the importance of being part of a team and understanding what part you play on that team. You all work together to reach a goal, and I think all of those factors come into play in my role as governor.” PeopleThinkingFirstsLittlesI CanSelfPlayFactsTogetherOpportunitySportsUnderstandingGoalRolesIssuesImagineTeamTaughtVictoryDisciplineHealthyFemaleImportanceCompetitionDefeatGenderFactorsDiscussionWorking TogetherGovernorsSelf DisciplineAbsentGraciousVictory And DefeatHealthy Competition Author:Sarah Palin
“Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.” MayStillsHardGamesSportsHistoryFateBloodSubjectsHard WorkReturnVictoryDisciplineGainsLaborBlindRewardsMetaphorWeatherFarmingSeductiveQuirksVisualizing Author:Garrison Keillor
“It is the easiest thing in the world for us to obey God when He commands us to do what we like, and to trust Him when the path is all sunshine. The real victory of faith is to trust God in the dark, and through the dark. Let us be assured of this, that if the lesson and the rod are of His appointing, and that His all-wise love has engineered the deep tunnel of trial on the heavenward road, He will never desert us during the discipline. The vital thing for us is not to deny and desert Him.” IfsWorldRealDarkPathWiseVictoryDisciplineLessonsDenyTrialsCommandDesertSunshineTrust In GodAssuredTunnelsWise LoveReal Victory Author:Theodore L. Cuyler
“You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.” SelfPrinciplesVictoryDisciplineRootsFoundationFruitMasterySelf DisciplineSelf MasteryGood RelationshipRelationships With OthersSequencing Author:Stephen Covey
“Men are seldom born brave but they acquire courage through training and discipline - a handful of men inured to war proceed to certain victory; while on the contrary numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.” MenWarCertainBornMilitaryVictoryDisciplineTrainingArmyBraveContraryAcquireTroopsMultitudesHandfulSlaughterUndisciplined Author:Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
“I first became interested in Ho Chi Minh in 1964-1965 while I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam as a foreign service officer with the Department of State. The government in Saigon was at the point of collapse and the [Lyndon] Johnson administration was preparing to send U.S. combat troops to prevent a communist victory there. I became convinced that the U.S. effort would not succeed because of the lack of conviction in the Saigon government compared to the discipline and sense of self-sacrifice among the Viet Cong.” FirstsSelfStatesGovernmentEffortSacrificeVictoryDisciplineSucceedSouthConvictionConvincedAdministrationDepartmentCommunistCombatOfficersVietnamCollapseTroopsPreparingJohnsonSense Of SelfSelf SacrificeEmbassySaigonViet CongForeign Service Author:William J. Duiker
“In the end, the greatest victory we can know is the result of all of our hard work, discipline, and dedication: the realization of our dreams.” KnowsEndsHardDreamResultsHard WorkVictoryDisciplineRealizationDedicationOur DreamsGreatest Victory Author:Cheryl Burke