Discipline Quotes About Habits, Practice & Consistency — Page 2

The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Part III discussion of the general rules of morality; Smith contrasts exact rules of justice with more flexible rules of prudence and generosity.

The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter V; Smith discusses labour as the original price and measure behind exchange.

The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter VI; Project Gutenberg #3300. The statement is part of Smith’s eighteenth-century theory of price and income distribution.

An Epistle from Mr. Pope to Dr. Arbuthnot (1735 first-edition scan), printed page 8 / scan leaf 14, around lines 148–150. After saying Gildon drew his “venal quill,” Pope says he wished him a dinner and did not answer the attack. The first edition reads “sate still,” while the later/normalized Gutenberg #9800 witness underlying the frozen catalog reads “sat still”; this collection wording is retained and the witness variation is disclosed rather than silently rewritten.

The Rape of the Lock, Canto V, lines 29–30 in Pope’s 1717 revision; spoken by Clarissa. Her speech was added in 1717, so the inherited 1714 source year is corrected to 1717. Clarissa’s counsel is immediately followed by the poem’s return to comic battle, preserving the satirical frame.

Poem “Ulysses,” final line.

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie; Carnegie describes his decision to concentrate his business attention on iron and steel.

Nicomachean Ethics, Book II; Aristotle explains virtue as something developed through corresponding actions.

The Human Machine, discussion of mental control. The maxim belongs to Bennett’s period self-discipline philosophy and should not be read as a clinical claim that thoughts or symptoms are always voluntarily controllable.

On The Art of Reading, Lecture V, Project Gutenberg #16579; “crests” refers to exceptional moments of successful writing described immediately before.

On The Art of Reading, Lecture V, Project Gutenberg #16579; excerpted from Quiller-Couch’s analogy between writing practice and concentrated performance.

On the Art of Writing, Lecture XII, “On Style,” Project Gutenberg #17470; the phrase concludes Quiller-Couch’s warning against purchased or extraneous ornament.

On the Art of Writing, Lecture XII, “On Style,” Project Gutenberg #17470; excerpted from Quiller-Couch’s reminder that students must master craft for themselves.

The Art of Literature, section “On Style,” T. Bailey Saunders translation; Project Gutenberg #10714. The following discussion criticizes overloaded parenthetical sentence construction.

Advice to a Young Tradesman, 21 July 1748; concluding advice on industry and frugality.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Part II, thirteen-virtue table: Resolution. Project Gutenberg #148 (Charles W. Eliot / Harvard Classics, 1909) preserves the represented wording; the reviewed direct locator is Wikisource Section Thirty Six.

Information to Those Who Would Remove to America, before March 1784; Founders Online. This is historical emigration advice written for Europeans and is not a claim about present-day U.S. labor or immigration conditions.

Information to Those Who Would Remove to America, before March 1784; Founders Online. The lowercase opening is retained because this is a clause from Franklin’s longer sentence about strangers, law, liberty and industry.

Information to Those Who Would Remove to America, before March 1784; Founders Online. The statement is eighteenth-century description and advocacy, not modern financial, employment or immigration guidance.

Poor Richard’s Almanack; a compact maxim about cumulative effort.

Poor Richard’s Almanack.

Poor Richard’s Almanack; a compact maxim about managing work before accumulated demands begin managing you.

Poor Richard’s Almanack.

Poor Richard’s Almanack.

Benjamin Franklin, The Morals of Chess, rule 4 in the reviewed public-domain Wikisource transcription. Franklin tells a player not to hurry or distract a slow opponent and immediately lists singing, whistling, watch-checking, reading and tapping as examples; the passage is historical conduct advice about fair play.

The Way to Wealth, where Father Abraham repeats maxims associated with Poor Richard.

The Way to Wealth; Father Abraham repeats the Poor Richard maxim while warning about small but cumulative expenses.

The Way to Wealth, Franklin’s compilation of Poor Richard maxims.

The Way to Wealth, frugality section; Project Gutenberg #43855 preserves the historical spelling “expences.” The ship image is one of the Poor Richard maxims quoted by Father Abraham.

The Way to Wealth, section III, frugality discussion, Project Gutenberg #43855. Father Abraham repeats the Poor Richard maxim “Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries” while warning auction-goers that an apparent bargain can become dear when the purchase is unnecessary. The persona and eighteenth-century moral-financial context remain explicit; this is not individualized financial advice.

The Way to Wealth, frugality section; Project Gutenberg #43855. The meal-tub is Franklin’s domestic metaphor for continual consumption without replacement.

Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays, within Russell’s philosophical discussion of human value and the world. The line is preserved as ethical argument rather than converted into a promise that circumstances are controllable.

Character Building, “Some Great Little Things,” Project Gutenberg #60484. Near the close of the address, Washington urges regular times for study, recreation, sleep, reading and reflection, treating regularity as part of everyday self-discipline.

Character Building, “Some Great Little Things,” Project Gutenberg #60484. Washington tells students to make order and neatness habitual in crowded rooms, immediately before his advice to work and close doors quietly.

Character Building, “What Is To Be Our Future?”, Project Gutenberg #60484. This sentence completes Washington’s model declaration about conscientious study and work.

Character Building, “What Is To Be Our Future?”, Project Gutenberg #60484. Washington offers the sentence as a standard students should be able to affirm about their own effort.

Character Building, “The Virtue of Simplicity,” Project Gutenberg #60484. The sentence refers specifically to students doing building work at Tuskegee.

Character Building, “Growth,” Project Gutenberg #60484. The line is part of an exhortation to Tuskegee students at the beginning of a new period of study.

Character Building, “Keeping Your Word,” Project Gutenberg #60484. Washington directs the advice to Tuskegee students in the context of promptness and keeping commitments.

Up from Slavery, Chapter XIV, “The Atlanta Exposition Address,” Project Gutenberg #2376. The sentence occurs inside Washington’s reproduced 1895 Atlanta Exposition address, where he argues for the dignity of common labour and beginning economic development from practical foundations.

Working With the Hands, Chapter I; Project Gutenberg #64504. This is an autobiographical fragment whose surrounding paragraph describes repeated attempts before improvement.

Working With the Hands, Chapter I, opening sentence; Project Gutenberg #64504. This deliberately short excerpt is presented with its educational context.

The Simple Life, Chapter IV, “Simplicity of Speech,” Mary Louise Hendee translation, Project Gutenberg #23092; Wagner recommends silence after criticizing needless verbal noise.

The Simple Life, Chapter II, Mary Louise Hendee translation, Project Gutenberg #23092; the sentence belongs to Wagner’s moral account of inward order.

“Up-Hill,” in Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862); Project Gutenberg #16950. The road is a spiritual-life allegory, so the line is not reduced to literal travel advice.

Cato on Old Age, Shuckburgh translation.

Cato on Old Age, in Cicero’s answer to the complaint that age reduces physical strength.

Tusculan Disputations, Book V, section XIV, represented by Project Gutenberg #14988. Cicero defines security parenthetically as freedom from anxiety while arguing that a happy life must rest on stable goods and virtue rather than vulnerable externals. It remains ancient philosophical psychology mediated by translation, not modern clinical anxiety-treatment evidence.

The Analects of Confucius, James Legge’s public-domain English translation; Book II connects moral recognition with the courage required for action.

The Analects of Confucius, James Legge’s public-domain English translation; Book I opens by connecting learning with steady practice.

The Analects of Confucius, James Legge’s public-domain English translation; Book IV contrasts careful speech with earnest conduct.

The Analects of Confucius, Book VII, Chapter XXXVI, James Legge translation, Project Gutenberg #3330.

Ecclesiastes 4:9, King James Version.

Ecclesiastes 7:8 in the King James Version; the verse contrasts patient spirit with pride and values the completed end of a matter over the excitement of its beginning.

Ecclesiastes 7:9 in the King James Version.

Ecclesiastes 9:10, King James Version.

Night Thoughts, Night I. The line appears in Young’s long religious and philosophical poem about mortality, delay and preparation for death; it is poetic moral reflection rather than productivity research.

North and South, represented by Project Gutenberg #4276. John Thornton speaks this sentence while recounting family hardship and the disciplined habits his mother taught him; it is historically situated fictional characterization, not Gaskell issuing a universal moral ranking.

Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels, “Time’s Gaze,” represented 1913 edition; Project Gutenberg #3228. This is poetic moral counsel, not a universal formula for achievement.

Ephesians 4:26 in the King James Version, in a section about truthful speech, reconciliation, and conduct within community.

Discourses of Epictetus, Book II, Chapter XVIII, “How we should struggle against appearances,” George Long translation; 1877 George Bell & Sons witness on Wikisource, cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #10661. Epictetus explains that habits and faculties are maintained by corresponding actions: “If you would be a good reader, read; if a writer, write.”

Discourses of Epictetus, Book II, Chapter XVIII, “How we should struggle against appearances,” George Long translation; 1877 George Bell & Sons witness on Wikisource, cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #10661. This collection lightly normalizes Long’s “any thing” to “anything”; this longer record contains the shorter retained habit excerpt represented by a separate legacy quote URL.

Discourses of Epictetus, Book II, Chapter I, “That confidence (courage) is not inconsistent with caution,” George Long translation; 1877 George Bell & Sons witness on Wikisource, cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #10661. Epictetus distinguishes confidence toward externals from moral caution in the use of one’s own will.

A concise clause from Enchiridion 8, where Epictetus contrasts demanding preferred outcomes with accepting what occurs.

Enchiridion, chapter 15; the following sentences explain waiting until things come round to you.

Enchiridion 5 in George Long’s translation; the passage distinguishes events from the opinions that disturb us.

Enchiridion, section 33 in George Long’s public-domain translation, Project Gutenberg #10661. The line is the suggested reply after hearing that someone has spoken ill of you; it is Stoic self-command, not an instruction to accept abuse without boundaries.

Enchiridion, chapter 35, George Long translation; the following sentence distinguishes right action from fear of wrong criticism.

Enchiridion, section 8; Epictetus applies Stoic acceptance to events outside personal control.

The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, saying XVII, Hastings Crossley translation.

The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, saying XX, Hastings Crossley translation.

The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, saying XXVI, Hastings Crossley translation.

Letter to Miss H. Bonham Carter [1861], transcribed in Sir Edward Cook, The Life of Florence Nightingale, Vol. I, Project Gutenberg #40057. The sentence follows Nightingale’s account of correcting a hotel cistern failure and represents her own retrospective claim about her working method.

The Lost Prince; Project Gutenberg #384. 'The game' is the boys’ repeated training exercise in memory, recognition and recall.

The Lost Prince; Project Gutenberg #384. Loristan encourages Marco to strengthen a sketching ability useful to the story’s secret mission.

The Lost Prince; Project Gutenberg #384. The exercise involves repeatedly sketching faces connected with places for the novel’s secret mission.

The Lost Prince; Project Gutenberg #384. The material being memorized is fictional mission information, while the quoted sentence simply describes the learning process.

The Lost Prince; Project Gutenberg #384. Loristan is training Marco for a fictional diplomatic and political mission, so the advice belongs to that narrative setting.

The Lost Prince; Project Gutenberg #384. The narration refers to Marco’s long-running memory game, which later becomes useful inside the novel’s fictional secret mission.

Bacon, “Of Revenge”; the sentence continues by contrasting revenge with wounds that would otherwise heal.

Francis Bacon, essay IV ‘Of Revenge,’ represented by Project Gutenberg #575. The frozen catalog sentence capitalizes the extracted opening ‘In’ and ends after ‘superior’; the witness reads it inside the longer sentence beginning ‘Certainly, in taking revenge...’ and continuing ‘for it is a prince's part to pardon.’ It remains early-modern moral and legal-political essay argument rather than modern clinical anger guidance.

My Bondage and My Freedom; Douglass is recounting one of the practical struggles through which persistence accompanied his pursuit of greater freedom and independence.

Self-Made Men lecture, commonly dated to 1872 in edited versions. Library of Congress preserves undated manuscript, typescript and printed-copy materials, including a later Carlisle version; Douglass delivered and revised the lecture across his speaking career. The lecture also stresses social interdependence, so this line should not be reduced to a simplistic bootstrap claim.

The Life of Reason; the line appears in Santayana’s analysis of ideas, activity, and sustained direction.

Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. Keller is describing her future-facing desire for useful activity as college ends.

Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. Keller contrasts longing for a great task with the daily duty of doing humble tasks well.

Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. The sentence follows Keller’s discussion of Carlyle’s historical “gospel of work.”

Life Without Principle, The Atlantic Monthly, 1863; represented Wikisource text. The line follows Thoreau’s claim that a community cannot buy a wise person away from work that genuinely occupies him.

Walden, “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For.”

A Psalm of Life, final line.

James 1:19 in the King James Version, pairing readiness to listen with restraint in speech and anger.

James 1:20 in the King James Version, immediately following the instruction to be slow to wrath.

All These Things Added (1903), Part II, “The Heavenly Life,” chapter “Perfect Freedom,” printed page 139 / Wikisource scan leaf 145. “Freedom resides in individual self-conquest” appears in Allen’s contrast between outward agitation and the inward emancipation he associates with mastery of passion, error and ignorance; this remains his spiritual-moral conception of freedom, not a modern political definition.

As a Man Thinketh, in the discussion of thought, health, and habit.

As a Man Thinketh, “Achievement”; this is the middle clause of Allen’s three-part conclusion.

As a Man Thinketh, chapter “Serenity”; Allen presents calmness as the result of long and patient effort in self-control.

As a Man Thinketh, closing lines of “Serenity”; capitalization follows the represented public-domain edition.

As a Man Thinketh, chapter “Effect of Thought on Circumstances.”

As a Man Thinketh, chapter “The Thought-Factor in Achievement.”

As a Man Thinketh, “Thought and Purpose.”