Quotes About Discipline

Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.

For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.

A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about four hours and then maybe come back to the book to finish the day for a few more hours of it.

To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

Can't you ever get off for good behavior?" "Sure, if I was ever good.

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Conservative Republicans are back. We're in the fight for fiscal discipline and limited government, and we are on the side of the American people.

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government.

When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.

In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.

The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.

But we don't have to react. That's what I'm saying. A police force, like a government, should be above that. Just because we're provoked doesn't mean we have to act. -- Still Life

Karate is the best thing you can do for your child.

If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you.

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

My first class is biology. I can't find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. It is 8:50 in the morning. Only 699 days and 7 class periods until graduation.