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I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do.

Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It requires you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them.

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

When I was doing poorly at school, my father yanked me out and got me a job in a shoe factory. After three weeks, I begged him to give me another chance at doing well in school. I learned that discipline is necessary to accomplish anything in life.

I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.