Quotes About Discipline

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.

You have to know the difference between what's of the world and what's of God. You have to want to know what he has to say. That's why it's best to pray in silence. He waits for you.

they lay flat, fluff your pillows, and be on your way. See how fast that was? I make my bed as soon as I get up in the morning, even before I head to the bathroom

Routines are not prisons from which you try to escape. Routines are the framework for a peaceful life. Routines establish a series of habits that are strung into a logical succession of actions. When we don't establish routines, we inevitably make mistakes.

The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.

If you can break a day down into quarters, then hours then half hours then minutes, you can chew down any stretch of time into bite sized.

Day was for discipline; night, chaos. Day was for white gloves and skirts below the knee, night was for goat blood on black skin. Day was for stiff lips and Bible verse; night was for an orgy of one with a green banana as her incubus.

Gotta stay in the gym, stay funny, stay sharp. I just love working.

When I give an order, Evangeline , I expect it to be obeyed. I don't expect it to be questioned. Or ignored. Or embellished with hare-brained notions. A ship runs on discipline. My discipline. As my father is fond of saying, on board this ship I am God, king, and all the saints combined and if you pray to anyone to keep you safe, you pray to me.

Wh-what do you think you are doing?" "I am getting some sleep, Governess. And so help me, if you keep me from it, your lovely backside will be a latticework of switch marks." Summer held her breath as Wade yawned, shifted, and settled into a more comfortable position. Surely he was not thinking she would remain with him like this for the rest of the night! "Captain Wade, I must insist--!" "Blood

If he had done well, he gave thanks to God. If not, he asked for forgiveness. Then without being discouraged, he set his mind right again, and continued his practice of the presence of God, as if he had never deviated from it.

disciplines, if they are void of the love of God, cannot remove a single sin from our lives.

He said that all bodily spiritual disciplines and exercises are useless. All that is needed to bring us to union with God is love. He had pondered this subject much, and concluded that the shortest way to God was to go straight to Him by a continual exercise of love and doing everything for His sake.

Structure not only increases our chance of success, it makes us more efficient at it.

Peter Drucker famously said, "Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

parents must constantly remind their children to say, "Thank you." It's one of the last and hardest things to teach naturally rebellious kids.

What's going on here? Why do our discipline and decisiveness fade at the end of the day, to the point where we opt to do nothing instead of doing something enjoyable or useful? It's not because we're inherently weak. It's because we're weakened. The

You can tell your body to do whatever you want, Miss Idina," he'd told her, his eyes closed and his legs crossed beneath him while a young Idina fidgeted in her attempt at the same position. "When you tell your mind to do what you say, and it finally obeys, this is mastery. Over anything and everything you wish.

Dear papa, I love you so much!' she replied, twining her arms around his neck. 'I love you all the better for never letting me have my own way, but always making me obey and keep to rules.

Verily I say unto you," Stuart said, looking Cyril straight in the eye and folding his arms, "that if you do not mind your sister Millie, you will be smitten both hip and thigh

Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

It takes at least five years of rigorous training to be spontaneous.