Quotes About Discipline

A Christian who prays only when they feel like it may survive but they will never thrive. Their vast, innate potential will be stunted because grace needs a little space to take root between the cracks of a person's life.

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the specific workout for each day as well as the category of training for that day. For example, in the 18-week schedule, on the Tuesday of the 7-weeks-to-go column, the specific workouts are

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

Parents today are afraid to discipline their kids. Why, I once smeared Brian with steak sauce and threatened to feed him to a wolverine because he forgot to say please. That's why he's the man that he is today!

We all have to recognize—no matter how great our strength," Truman declared, "that we must deny ourselves the license to do always as we please.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.

At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.

If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times over, and over, and over, and that if you want to write at a good level, you'll have to do that too.

Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

In his deathbed delirium, Jackson had cried out, "Order A.P. Hill to prepare for action . . . Pass the infantry to the front." These laurels were richly deserved, for Hill was inseparable from Jackson's string of victories. He effected a system of command and discipline within his division which made it a model within the Army of Northern Virginia. His emphasis on speed led it to become known as the "Light Division," despite its large size (six brigades).

I never hear you practice." He smiled: "Only those who are dirty need to wash.

I've always enjoyed cleaning. Even though they tried to teach us laziness in school.

The most important thing for morale was to maintain a united front among the officers.

The cornerstone of the Roman legionnaires' astonishing fighting spirit can be attributed to their training.

With everything seeming to fall apart, good habits were one thing to hold on to.

He had learned that it was much less a distraction than a form of connection: of connecting to the best part of himself, and to a discipline that demanded he stay open to every sense, to the nuances of the season and to the instrument of his own body, his own agility or fatigue.

In truth, Celine never went too long without eating. HALT. It was her AA training. Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired - don't let yourself become any of those, if you can help it.

Everything still revolves around memorization and repetition, the old cornerstones of Chinese education.

Proper education is a fundamentally conservative activity, based on the assumption that a body of knowledge exists, is in the hands of the adult and educated, and can be passed on in measurable ways, by disciplined learning reinforced with authority.

Routine gave you structure. Structure gave you perspective. And perspective gave you a horizon.

Do not leave any of it until morning; before the morning you must burn up any part that is left over.

Then Moses said to them, “No one may keep any of it until morning.”