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Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack · 1732-1758

Self-discipline Quotations

“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Think in the morning, act in the noon, eat in the evening, sleep in the night.”

William Blake · The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790 · Primary source

“When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority—at least of indifference.”

Ian Fleming · On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1963 · Primary source

“When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.”

Thomas Jefferson · Letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 1825 · Primary source

“He that never eats too much, will never be lazy.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot hurt your feelings.”

Leonardo da Vinci · The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888 · Primary source

“We never repent of having eaten too little.”

Thomas Jefferson · Letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 1825 · Primary source

“Drunkenness, that worst of evils, makes some men fools, some beasts, some devils.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“’'Tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“You will never reach your destination if you stop to shy [throw] stones at every dog that barks.”

Winston Churchill · Shy a stone at every dog, 1923 · Primary source

“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Compensation, 1841 · Primary source

“For my greatest skill has been to want but little.”

Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1849 · Primary source

“Take this remark from Richard, poor and lame, whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

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Self-discipline

8 authors · 8 works · 28 themes · 54 tags
Authors
Benjamin Franklin American statesmanWinston Churchill British prime ministerRalph Waldo Emerson American essayist and philosopher
Works
Poor Richard’s Almanack Benjamin Franklin · 1732-1758Walden Henry David Thoreau · 1849The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci (translated by Jean Paul Richter) · 1888
Themes
Regular habits can support wellbeing and productivitySelf-discipline is linked with practical advantageOrder in daily life
Tags
Self-controlRestraintPatienceRoutine
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