discipline Quotes

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.