Quotes About Discipline

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.

You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.

God-realization is attained only by great effort on the part of the yogi and by divine grace.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.

I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them

The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too.

Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.

In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.

Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

It is a paradoxical statement, but it takes incredible personal discipline to play with great freedom.

To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2008 was great for my fitness.