Alexander Paterson famous quotes

The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.
-- Alexander Paterson

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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

You seen it, was it as pretty as me?

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.

All change begins with a DECISION. Once the decision is made, DISCIPLINE becomes the bridge between desire and accomplishment.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.