Quotes About Discipline

Live no one else today, so you can live like no else tomorrow

It's the Olympics. If you can't get up to swim early in the morning, don't go.

If you refuse to practice run today, it will make harder to practice it tomorrow

Saddest of all God's creatures in the world is the religious person who has disciplined himself to outward obedience but who has no inward love to God.

A man of courage is in command of himself.

We can never achieve and succeed without first making excellence second nature.

Change your world with your hardwork and loyalty not with your words and your dreams.

Those who will work hard will succeed, While those shop choose to slack at their work will be in need.

Have the discipline to listen to and to trust your instincts.

Practice transforms a skill into an art

Practice diligence, intelligence will follow you.

He who rules his spirit, shall conquer himself.

Doesn't make any difference how hard the thing is or how much you want to do something else. Do the thing you first started and do it as well as you possibly can.

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control (2 Timothy 1:7 AMP)

Contemplative prayer is a discipline that enables our developing relationship with Jesus Christ to reach stages of growth in union with God.

All you need is love. It sounded true but wasn't. You needed a hell of a lot more than that. You needed tolerance and self-control, and you needed empathy and strength and discipline and flexibility. You needed serenity and good luck.

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

ritual del oryoki.

Erlend also thought that he would undoubtedly make Father Henri very happy with this story, and that his industriousness and exactitude in carrying out this task might also shorten his wait to be admitted as a full brother in the Cistercian order.

The point, Nobu told Sumi, was to find some disciplined way to endure suffering without losing one's sense of identity, dignity, and purpose.

It's not the sort of thing romantics wish to hear, but I found that in the end, love must be a kind of discipline. If we love only with our feelings, we're sunk—we may feel love one day and something quite other the next. Soon after he came to live with me—he was eleven years old at the time—I realized I must learn to love with my will, not my feelings.

In past lives these folks were trained to repress their feelings, instincts, sexual urges, and enjoyment of the physical senses. Abstinence and discipline were foremost, and deprivation of the joys of being human was rewarded with respect and promotion. In this incarnation they still tend to put up a wall between themselves and easy, earthy interaction with others. They are accustomed to postponing the pleasure of life, and often postponement leads to permanent denial.

locking the little scamp in the basement.

Control. Master.