Quotes About Discipline

So if you are beginning to address a sleep problem in your child, be sure to set up a firm schedule and stick to it rigorously for several weeks after your child has begun sleeping well again.

Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master.

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day. Righteous character is a precious manifestation of what you are becoming. Righteous character is more valuable than any material object you own, any knowledge you have gained through study, or any goals you have attained no matter how well lauded by mankind.

Self-control issues are most likely to arise when choices and their consequences are separated in time.

Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able,And on the seventh—holystone the decks and scrape the cable.

Glaisher emphasised the particular scientific virtues required by ballooning: meticulous care and accuracy, calmness and detachment, stoic self-discipline; and a kind of spiritual openness to the wonders of Creation.

The highest achievement results from mastering one's senses. Wisdom comes when we are no longer interested in worldly things.

He brushed his teeth carefully and used dental floss. He tried to take good care of his teeth because he was his own dentist now. Some things could go to pot, but not his health, he thought. Then why don't you stop pouring alcohol into yourself? he thought. Why don't you shut the hell up? he thought.

Playing the violin or writing a poem are special ways of paying attention. They are acts at once small and great. Although only one person can commit them, they require orderly marshallings of countless and diverse forces, something like the great landing of armies in Normandy, but incalculably bigger and more complicated.

A truth bends near him, one that his discipline will never find. Consciousness itself is a flavor of madness, set against the thoughts of the green world.

But practice pares back the impossible

The MP's hunted antelope with machine guns for fresh meat and for sport. Groves authorized only cold showers for his troops; their isolated duty would win them eventual award for the lowest VD rate in the entire U.S. Army.

A page a day is a book a year. Listen to that again: a page a day is a book a year.

Life is all about practicing for heaven. p 101.

We can save ourselves a lot of distress and accusation by knowing when, where, to whom, and how to talk about spiritually mature things.

The Dalai Lama said much the same thing: "Learn and obey the rules very well, so you will know how to break them properly.

this preoccupation with order, control

You can't do all your homework at the end.

Scott Peck's major insight in his best-selling book, The Road Less Traveled. He told me personally once that he felt most Western people were just spiritually lazy. And when we are lazy, we stay on the path we are already on, even if it is going nowhere. It is the spiritual equivalent of the second law of thermodynamics: everything winds down unless some outside force winds

My favorite teacher in college advised me not to write a book until it was impossible not to.

We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.

High performers not only practice deliberately, they think deliberately.

True success requires sacrifice.

The most difficult kind of strength -- restraint.