Quotes About Discipline

Successful people have successful habits. Mediocre people have mediocre habits. And it all starts with a choice.

Doers, on the other hand, act their way into feeling. After determining what needs to be done based on their goals, doers take action. They just do it. If they don't feel like taking action, they consider that emotion a distraction and take action in spite of it. They refuse to let their craving for short-term comfort divert them from their long-term goal and the blessings that go along with it.

Anger should be a weapon to be used discriminately, not a weakness and a loss of control.

A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study, but war and its organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.

A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.

One should become the master of one's mind rather than let one's mind master him.

Davout commanded the Ambleteuse camp under strict discipline.

Nobody worked harder than Napoleon himself. Fifteen hours a day was quite normal for him.

His hours of sleep were no more fixed than those of his meals.

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

Plato advocated discipline and perfectionism, the effort to produce quality in small quantity rather than a vast range of what is second-rate.

I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the weight off because I was 240 pounds at my heaviest, and now I'm around 175, so the majority of that weight loss was due to diet and exercise.

I am quite strict as a dad but I don't want to be censorious.

To high-drive labs and boarder collies, fetch is often more than just a game; it's their job, a dead serious business.

Meanwhile, Rick was supplying texture and melody, and Roger drive, discipline and musical forethought. As drummers are a law unto themselves, I fortunately have never had to justify my existence in quite the same way.

even if Guy Pratt was the last out of the bar the night – or morning – before, his playing was faultless on stage, a tribute to his iron constitution or the fact that our music was too easy.

something: scenario x is responded to by action y. Everyone learns it and then practices it until responses are almost instinctive. It's all part of the "train hard, fight easy" philosophy that's central to military life—though veterans of the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan smile

we had more skill than you can imagine, at almost every position. But guys didn't want to put in the effort or to play with toughness and togetherness, and the incredible skills never developed into talent.

There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.

You think it's all rather too "New Age" to be taken seriously, eh?' 'Not at all.' 'But it's an ancient discipline...' 'New Age disciplines invariably are,' Beede said, disparagingly, 'but in the modern world they lack context - we just pick them up and then toss them back down again, we consume them. They have no moral claim on us. No moral value. And without that they're rendered meaningless, fatuous, even.

She had wide shoulders, a tight waist flowing into rounded hips, and muscles on her fingers and forearms and neck. I guessed her back was also finely muscled, and her legs. It was muscle that comes from intensive training from an early age, the kind a trapeze artist or free climber or high diver develops. Not something acquired behind a food counter.

She had no idea why it was important and her heart was kicking like a hare. But she had been trained to show a still face so she raised her own mantle and looked back.

Discipline is not so much a social necessity as an aesthetic obligation.

For the trunk of individuality to grow, one must prevent freedom from making the trunk spread out into branches.