I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing.

William Pitt Chatham

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He that cannot obey, cannot command.

Benjamin Franklin

To become the kind of person you want to become, you've got to have discipline. It's easier to keep to your standards 100 percent of the time versus 98 percent of the time.

Clayton M. Christensen

Once taken off one task without completing the transaction, the mind continues to seek closure. Fight to stay focused on the task at hand.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as eminently inspiring and even miraculous.

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