Quotes About Discipline

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices.

You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it.

So, when it comes to eating healthy, it's just doing the right thing. And it's not something you have to do 365 days a year, but I think it's something you have to do 25 days a month. Let's put it that way.

Scripture teaches and assumes that all issues are spiritual issues and all disciplines are spiritual disciplines. This is the key to spiritual growth: the recognition that all aspects of my everyday life can be done for the glory of God and used by him to shape me more and more into the image of God.

The thing about work is that it's a habit. If you do it enough. it sort of sticks so that you feel wrong if you're not doing something.

I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

People form habits and habits form futures.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routines.

The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

The only other time I can recall my dad getting upset at me was when I missed a hockey practice. My parents were away, so my buddy and I decided to skip it. I never told my dad about it, but he found out from the coach.

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

I trained my spirit in method.

The peasants knew that a spoiled son did more harm to a family than a dead one, and they kept themselves from indulging him too much.

The Bible said that a wise person must rein in his tongue. Not everything you wanted to say should be said.

It's possible that the college prizes misled me to believe that I could publish a novel immediately after quitting the law. However, the more I studied fiction, the more I realized that writing novels required rigorous discipline and mastery, no different than the study of engineering or classical sculpture. I wanted to get formal training.

My parents didn't let me do social things on weeknights because weeknights were for homework, and maybe an episode of The X-Files if I was being a good kid (X-Files was on Friday night),

The truth is, if I were going to lose weight successfully, I would have to think about what I eat constantly.

Cleaning is considered a vital part of the training process in all traditional Japanese disciplines and is a required practice for any novice. It is accorded spiritual significance. Purifying an unclean place is believed to purify the mind.

One time after the adoption papers came through I was fooling around with a water pistol and, in a childish bid for attention, sprayed her. She came after me and said, "If you were my real child I'd give you a good spanking." It was like a slap in the face. I thought I was her child.