“It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.”

Patience and shuffle the cards.

Woman’s advice has little value, but he who won’t take it is a fool.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise.

Love not what you are but only what you may become.

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

It is good to live and learn.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

The road to the inn is much better than the stay.

Every man is the son of his own works.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Dine on little, and sup on less.

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.

Discipline is the only thing that continues to save myself from all the hell that life brings my way.

It’s a lot more than mind over matter. It takes relentless self discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day.

If you’ve got the drive, the discipline, and the resolve to do what it takes to make yourself great, then the rewards are endless.

When you are deciding on next steps, next jobs, next careers, further education, you should rather find purpose than a job or a career,” he said at the time. “Purpose crosses disciplines. Purpose is an essential element of you. It is the reason you are on the planet at this particular time in history.

Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

I’ve never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline.

We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.