Quotes About Discipline

Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength.

To accomplish anything extraordinary you must blend desire for the goal with the will to take action to achieve it. This is how you commit to making yourself do what's right, whether you feel like it or not. The key is self-control.

The System of Motorcycle Control (the British System) is the basis for what is called roadcraft, the science of becoming an accomplished motorcyclist. The implication is that motorcycling is a craft worthy of mastering, not simply a fun thing you attempt by bump and feel.

It's how we train." "To drown?" "To never quit. Ever.

The truth is of course a difficult discipline for us. Not only do we have to discover it. We've also got to handle it in the right way. It's enough to wear you down, isn't it?

If you wanted to show that someone was a good chap, the essence of a good and clean Englishman, you would say that he was an athlete.

In France, being exigeant, or discriminating, is considered a positive quality,

David Foster Wallace: Now, if I don't develop some machinery for being able to turn off pure unalloyed pleasure, and allow myself to go out and, you know, grocery shop and pay the rent? I don't know about you, but I'm gonna have to leave the planet.

We are all driven by our passions, and our task is to know when to submit to them and when to resist.

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

The Son of God fasted because He knew there were supernatural things that could only be released that way.

It's quite a discipline when we're in trouble to think of God and say, "I need some help."

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

Abstinence is approved of God.

When you have God-given talent, I think that that kind of hinders your practice habits and that's what I think it did to me.

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.

Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.

No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline

Fatherhood has taught me when it's too quiet my kids are usually sinning. God the Father knows the same. Are you praying?

Fasting keeps you sensitive to His (God) Spirit, enabling you to live holy.

The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.

If we don't discipline ourselves, God will make certain we are disciplined by others.

You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.