Quotes About Discipline

Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant.

It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.

Once you understand what excellence is all about... you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline.

I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.

All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

The habit of excellence can become enjoyably addictive.

Overtraining is the biggest problem incurred by runners who lack the experience or discipline to cope with their own enthusiasm.

No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.

Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.

Later works are better because it takes a lot of time in architecture to mature. And, it takes a lot of discipline to experience everything that is changing around you.

But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

Everyone always says that having kids is messy and sloppy. It's true, but you as a parent have to try to bring some boundaries and control over that experience, or you'd have out-of-control kids.

I feel like I always had a yin and yang experience with music. I've always been able to rock out, and then I've always had to take piano lessons, too.

I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every day in order to keep the rhythm, to keep myself focused on what I'm doing.

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

The secret of all failure is disobedience.

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.

If people just put away what's left at the end of the month, that's a recipe for failure.

Success simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Choose to succeed.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.