discipline Quotes

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.