Quotes About Discipline

What I desire most of you, my son, is never to gamble or swear. These are baneful vices.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

Habit is stronger than desire.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

A kung fu man lives without being dependant on the opinions of others, and a master, unlike the beginner, holds himself in reserve. He is quiet and unassuming, with no desire to show off.

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Right now, your destiny is to shut up!

Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism.

Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.

The key to sticking with any diet is learning how to control hunger and manage cravings.

Remove yourself from temptation. Don't even look at something if you know you shouldn't have it.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.