Quotes About Discipline

Order marches with weighty and measured strides; disorder is always in a hurry.

Never march by flank in front of an army in position. This principle is absolute.

Chief of the Army.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.

Practice is the effort that makes winning possible

It's good to go off and write a novel, but don't stop doing writing practice.

THE BASIC UNIT of writing practice is the timed exercise.

keep your hand moving

Money, like emotions, is something you must control to keep your life on the right track.

football field, but you don't play football all the time," says Kenzie. "A running back can't always rush. Sometimes you have to hold back. Think of what might happen if I used my super strength all the time.

Breathing for Warriors,

It's similar to the run-walk-run method for endurance running where you don't wait to be too tired to run before you take a walk break. By resting even before the point of mental fatigue, you extend your ability to focus intensely on the task at hand … including reading.

Man has a tropism for order. Keys in one pocket, change in another.

Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Your job is to be the hardest motherfucker in your platoon," he said while pointing at me across the desk. "Do that, and everything else will fall into place." He added that I was assigned to Bravo Company, call sign Hitman, and wished me luck.

The Marines,' my dad said, 'will teach you everything I love you too much to teach you.

Marine training is essentially a psychological battle against the instinct for self-preservation.

As parenting declines, the need for policing increases. There will always be a shortage of police if there is a shortage of effective parents! Likewise, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

If you're careless and disorganized, you lose your ability to see things clearly.

Our youth must be shown that not all worthwhile things are instantly accessible and that there are levels of sensibility unknown to them.