Quotes About Discipline

so to make a good Christian, there is required a conscientious care to use all appointed means.

Therefore labour to be sound rather than brave Christians.

He was a man of excitable and fiery nature; but through his high-discipline he converted the fire into a central glow and motive force of life, instead of permitting it to waste itself in useless passion.

i suspect that the first dictator of this country will be called coach.

Nature punishes gluttony, not avarice or hate.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

Three parts of the Noble Eightfold Path fall within the training of s?la: right speech, right action, and right livelihood.

Those who can command themselves command others.

The whole art of training consists in two things, exercise and abstinence, abstinence and exercise, repeated alternately without end.

Therefore we must give a certain character to our activities. . . . In short, the habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

The most important investment ability of all is emotional discipline.

Dieting and investing are both simple, but neither is easy.

Great intelligence and good luck are not required. The essential characteristics of the successful investor are the discipline and stamina to, in the words of John Bogle, "stay the course." Investing is not a destination. It is an ongoing journey through its four continents—theory, history, psychology, and business.

I made a rule that I'd buy each stock exactly at the pivot buy point and have the discipline not to pyramid or add to my position at more than 5% past that point. Then I'd sell each stock when it was up 20%, while it was still advancing.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can... . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the ore our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.

Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

HISTORY, IN CORK'S OPINION, was a useless discipline, an assemblage of accounts and memories, often flawed, that in the end did the world no service. Math and science could be applied in concrete ways. Literature, if it didn't enlighten, at least entertained. But history? History was simply a study in futility. Because people never learned.

A Squadron Commander who can't take his best friend out and shoot him can't Command worth s*#t" -Steep Turner

Her genius derives from the fact that she was capable of the deepest feeling but also of the most discerning and disciplined thought.

Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.