Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

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Self-discipline is about controlling your desires and impulses while staying focused on what needs to get done to achieve your goal.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Benjamin Franklin

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

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