Quotes About Discipline

Lent is a time for discipline, for confession, for honesty, not because God is mean or fault- finding or finger-pointing but because he wants us to know the joy of being cleaned out, ready for all the good things he now has in store.

Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.

Virtue, in this strict sense, is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices, requiring effort and concentration, to do something which is good and right but which doesn't "come naturally"—and then, on the thousand and first time, when it really matters, they find that they do what's required "automatically," as we say.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

Hard work has made it easy.That is my secret. That is why I win.

I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.

Vasic said the words on Aden's tongue. "The Arrows expect mercy from no one.

This intriguing debut collection of short stories displays craft, discipline and narrative strength.

dig your grave with your knife and fork.

It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

Religions—most of them, anyway—had promoted self-effacement, sacrifice, restraint.

I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can't live without chocolate, though. I've always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it's too sweet, any more and it's inedible. Like I said, I'm very particular.

As with every aspect of our sanctification, the renewal of the mind may be painful and difficult. It requires hard work and discipline, inspired by a sacrificial love for Christ and a burning desire to build up His body, the Church. Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him.

Punishments were severe, their harshness underscored by the fact that they were written in blood. At the very least, petty thieves were beaten with whips. Those convicted of stealing property...routinely lost an army or a leg. the most serious offenders were tied to a post, where, as it was stipulated, 'his body shall be taken as a target,' with arrows.

If spanking worked, we'd only have to do it once.

Epictetus tells us, "It is not easy to gain the attention of young men who are soft, for you cannot get hold of soft cheese with a hook; but the naturally gifted, even if you turn them away, hold all the more firmly to reason.

If it ought to be done, then apply yourself to it strenuously

Dedication and hardwork is a great combination to start with.

Enryo, self-restraint, was a Japanese cultural value that Mom emphasized

the first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue

The moral is to the physical as three is to one

Every soldier carries a marshall's baton in his pack.

The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.