Quotes About Discipline

Anything short of the discipline and honesty of a true gold coin standard will inevitably self-destruct, consuming our wealth and liberties, and nurturing the omnipotent state.

I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

Honor, I thought. For real: the guardians should have taught it. Because I hadn't learned it.

For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.

He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.

Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.

The important things are to train hard, and not give up hope.

The 'machine-gun' approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

My Way is the Way of Karate, which is also the Way of humanity, and which is consequently related to the Way of Heaven.

The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.

Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?

There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics, and the natural sciences.

... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.

My father only hit me once, but he used a Volvo.

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.

Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.

If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap?

There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.

Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.