Quotes About Discipline

in 934, the king set out to discipline Constantine by invading his territory.

the Benedictine Rule, having no private property, abstaining from meat, and above all abstaining from sex.

Æthelwold took it upon himself to tour them all, laying down the standards of behaviour he expected

After several weeks of smooth sleeping, instead of giving the child the treats immediately, they can be placed in a "treat bowl" to be given to the child after dinner. This delayed gratification helps the child to substitute heightened self-esteem for the treats. Later, forget the reward but continue with the hugs, kisses, and praise.

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.

Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain cases of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline ... reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the Spirit.

We feel very strongly that our own wisdom begins where that of the author leaves off and we could like him to provide us with desires... That is the value of reading and is also its inadequacy. To make it into discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.

and he would have also to endure his book like a form of fatigue, to accept it like a discipline, build it up like a church, follow it like a medical regime, vanquish it like an obstacle, win it like a friendship, cosset it like a little child, create it like a new world without neglecting those mysteries whose explanation is to be found probably only in worlds other than our own and the presentiment of which is the thing that moves us most deeply in life and in art.

Desiring a will was not enough. I would have needed precisely what I could not have without willpower: a will.

The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

the life, vigour, and comfort of our spiritual life depend much on our mortification of sin.

That the choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin.

2.) Mortification prunes all the graces of God, and makes room for them in our hearts to grow.

The vigor, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

The skinheads never got anywhere, Hansi, continued the general, because this is Germany and the assholes never learned to march in step . . .

Even Navy's got better discipline than this.

The problem with fighting at a lower level is that it doesn't simulate reality well. You want to train harder than real combat, not easier.

pain was weakness leaving the body.

For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them.

For two years, all you have to do is go where they tell you, stay behind your rifle, and kill and not be killed. It's simple, but simple isn't the same as easy.

The three rules of writing: 1. It's Work. 2. It's Work. 3. Surprise! It's Work.

You may additionally tell him that Master Sergeant Antonio Ruiz has declared that you are not nearly the dipshit that most of your fellow recruits have turned out to be." "Thank you, Master Sergeant." "Don't let it go to your head, Private. You are still a dipshit. Just not a very big one." "Of course, Master Sergeant.

Among men, it seems, historically at any rate, the processes of coordination and disintegration follow each other with great regularity, and the index of the coordination is the measure of the disintegration which follows. There is no mob like a group of well-drilled soldiers when they have thrown off their discipline. And there is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him. There is no hater like one who has greatly loved.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.