Quotes About Discipline

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: "I am rising to a man's work."

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

we train for war and fight to win.

The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed over the ground, and speed of thought. There's no prizes for gleaming a set of well-oiled muscles in Coronado. Bulk just makes you slow, especially in soft sand, and that's what we had to tackle every day of our lives, mile after mile.

He was Instructor Reno Alberto, a five-foot-six man-mountain of fitness, discipline, and intelligence. He was ruthless, cruel, unrelenting taskmaster.

and it might be only small things that separate guys who are very good from guys who are absolutely excellent, outstanding.

1. Consider all weapons to be loaded at all times. 2. Never point a weapon at anything you do not want to put a bullet through. 3. Never put your finger on the trigger unless you want to shoot. 4. Know your target and what's behind it.

I'm gonna break you down, mentally and physically," he yelled at us. "Break you down, hear me? Then I'm gonna build you right back up, as one fighting unit — so your mind and body are one.

But as we are always told, you have to earn that Trident every day. We never stop learning, never stop training.

Give me a golf ball and I can hit that sucker a country mile. That's because golf is a game that requires practice, practice, and more practice.

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Siquid desit in annum, uti paretur: quae supersint, ut veneant: quae opus sint locato, locentur: quae opera fieri velit et quae locari velit, uti imperet et ea scripta relinquat... Patrem familias vendacem, non emacem esse oportet.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

Practise make it perfect!

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

El deseo de ganar nace en la mayoría de nosotros. La voluntad de ganar es una cuestión de entrenamiento. La manera en que se gana es una cuestión de honor.

I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.

For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free man (all who try that have proved tiresome), but a technique: I hoped to discover the hinge where our will meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining, our nature.