Best Discipline Quotes to Help You Stay Focused - page 33

Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.
Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.
 Harold Bloom
Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them.
 Nathaniel Branden
It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders.
 James Hunter
All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.
 William Ellery Channing
It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody's permission or to obey anybody's orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.
But Sarah Weddingtonhad never told me that what I was signing would allow women to use abortions as a form of birth control. We talked about truly desperate and needy women, not women already wearing maternity clothes.
 Norma McCorvey
We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.
It was his soul's freedom that was in question. And that question was whether freedom was worth the price when it meant shirking the responsibilities of honor.
 Janet Morris
We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated
 Brad Stevens
Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.
Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.
 Ron Suskind
There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
 Buzz Aldrin
If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.
 Barry Lopez
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
 Bernard Baruch
Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.
 Edsger Dijkstra
I think that fiction has this special responsibility or this special ability to help people to empathize, to demand of people that they understand other individuals and other people's experiences.
 Ben H. Winters
I do know I'm a control freak.
 Alton Brown
Each is responsible for his own actions.
 H. L. Hunt
No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.
 Victor LaValle
My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.
My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.
 Morena Baccarin
Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.
 Charles de Lint