Quotes About Discipline

If you make the effort to address the moves that cause a slice, you can straighten out all your shots. It won't happen overnight, but if you're systematic about it, the process will work.

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

Keep your stick on the Ice

You can't find truth so easily in disorder. Grammar—and biology—and chemistry—and math—they keep things in order. We wouldn't know much without order. Good grammar does matter.

Athletes are very cool to me.

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.

For 'tis not enough to have good faculties, but the principal is, to apply them well.

Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers that write at all.

A world-class violinist was once asked how she came to master her instrument. "Planned neglect," she responded. When she began violin, she explained, other necessary work came before practicing violin. It wasn't until she decided to neglect everything else each day until after violin practice that she started becoming a virtuoso.

The Spiritual Disciplines in and of themselves have no merit whatsoever. They possess no righteousness, contain no rectitude. Their purpose—their only purpose—is to place us before God. After that they have come to the end of their usefulness. But it is enough.

Spiritual Disciplines involve doing what we can do to receive from God the power to do what we cannot do. And God graciously uses this process to produce in us the kind of person who automatically will do what needs to be done when it needs to be done.

Freedom comes not from the absence of restraint but from the presence of discipline.

A Spiritual Discipline is an intentionally directed action by which we do what we can do in order to receive from God the ability (or power) to do what we cannot achieve by direct effort.

The truth is that we only learn to pray all the time everywhere after we have resolutely set about praying some of the time somewhere. — John Dalrymple

our three basic categories of an MMA fighter.

Most sports require you to master the movements of only your own body to be successful. The combat grappling arts, such as jujitsu, require you to become the master not only of your own movement but also that of your opponent—a far more difficult and complex task.

In fact, there is an axiom of martial arts training that everyone ought to know: The way you train is the way you will fight. Martial arts that allow you to apply your technique at close to full power in daily training and sport allow you to constantly use those very techniques in almost exactly the same way during a real fight.

Loyalty is a very fine thing, but it shouldn't be allowed to get the bit between its teeth. I

I discovered that I was shivering, decided to stop, and did.

A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.

When I'm driving I don't see much of anything except the road, for I have the type of mind that gets on a job and stays there until it's time for another one.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.

If only preaching be necessary, let us have none but preachers. What needs there, then, such a stir about government? But if discipline (in its place) be necessary too, what is it but enmity to men's salvation to exclude it?