"Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps..." - Quote by John C Maxwell
Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. That's the Law of Consistency. It doesn't matter how talented you are. It doesn't matter how many opportunities you receive. If you want to grow, consistency is key.
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“The ability to understand people is one of the greatest assets anyone can ever have.”
“Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.”
“Your life expands in proportion to your courage. Fear limits a leader.”
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“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.”
“We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.”
“Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.”
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“At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it.”
“Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.”