Quotes About Discipline

Fasting is truly a secret source of power.

The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.

The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.

There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.

A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do.

I wish to improve my power, but not in a home run way.

I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.

Habit is necessary to give power.

A father has to do everything in his power to keep a tight ship, even though he knows the crew would like to send him away in a dinghy.

Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.

The path is focus. The power of focus is absolutely essential. To stop all thoughts, you have to have tremendous power of focus.

Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.

Order and system are nobler things than power.

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.

As fleeting commitments, diets often fail. Thinking of dietary choices as part of who you are...can give them real staying power

The power of habit is very strong.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.