Quotes About Discipline

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.

If there is set back never lose heart. In setback there is a hidden agenda demanding more discipline, determination & commitment. It's an opportunity to prove yourself against all odds. To prove your worth, the important point is your conviction, that you are capable of significant achievement or that you have something special to contribute.

Life's experiences teach us that dedication is the key to success.

There is no aspect of life that you take that does not demand discipline. It is a requirement of life. It is not a matter of choice.

You must master your habits or they will master you.

Difficulty is a severe instructor. It's like a strict teacher teaching in the class. You got to tolerate her and do well in her subject. There is no alternative. No plan B.

There is no shortcuts for achievement of goals. Constant hard work, determination, and courage is a must.

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.

Do only one thing at a time. It is lazy people who want to do everything at once.

Success does not come by mistake, you have to work for it.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Proper preparation, prevents poor performance.

One half of life is luck, and the other half is discipline and that's the important half for without discipline, you would not know what to do with luck.

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

Ballet class is like Life Lessons 101. You learn some of life's most important lessons here that you will carry with you forever.

A slap in the face or a box on the ear helps to educate not only children but poets.

Yo no era más que el instrumento de unos hábitos de no trabajar.

To make [reading] into a discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of a spiritual life. It can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it.

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.

We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living.