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.

Robert Greene

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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

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

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

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

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