Quotes About Discipline

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Once a kata has been learned, it must be practised repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of just the sequence of a kata in karate is useless.

The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.

One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.

With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.

e já levo o Valderas pela trela para onde bem me apeteça, é incrível como o amansei: aqui mijas, aqui paramos, aqui afrouxo a trela para te achares em liberdade, aqui há aguentar, que apressar o passo e, se precisares de cagar, tens de te aguentar.

The great Vince Lombardi said, "Discipline and mental toughness are many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial, and most importantly, it's combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in.

Don't cave in. It's easy to get distracted. It's easy to let influences pull you away from your structured weekly schedule in pursuit of your goals. Discipline and resolve will lead to your next job. Don't cave in on the high expectations you establish for yourself when you set the bar high (above in Principle #1).

Most cases of child discipline may be solved by establishing structure that will lead to the reenforcement of the biblical principles established for the home. To do this, the rules of the home need to be set out clearly.

On the whole, punishments that are productive (work details above and beyond ordinary chores) are the best punishments whenever they can be devised. Ordinary chores ought not to be used as punishments since parents should endeavor to get their children to enjoy helping out in the family.

The question never seems to be asked: is psychiatry a valid discipline?

Counselees need to structure hard tasks by scheduling them.

Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the chained muse. It's like playing the guitar, or practicing taekwondo, or having sex. The more you do, the better you get. The better you get, the better it feels. The better it feels, the more you want to do.

I like structure - like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hitting the car, go in right, you'll see a big church, stop and take a left, and you'll have it. By doing this I'm giving a structure of life, a path of light, and showing what happens between me and me, which is something very beautiful.

I call saintliness not a state but the moral procedure leading to it.

Discipline is of no use whatsoever, since things are naturally eliminated by discernment without it being necessary for us to treat them brutally. Even in the course of the technique known as "letting-go", a faint shadow of discipline is implied, for letting-go of an object implies a certain discipline. Only an effortless and choiceless, I repeat choiceless reaction, is the hallmark of liberation.

Is is said that those who study the ways of ambition learn patience.

so you must be as punctilious in sending them as though it were a bill that you were paying. I hope that they will always be respectful in tone and will reflect credit on your training.

Crime is a career, whether you are a practitioner or an investigator, and it requires intuition and patience.

Temperance and labor are the two true physicians of man.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it

Surrealism, although the courses of literature paradoxically make room for it today, is not a discipline that can be taught.

Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. Fussing over children who cry only encouraged them, she told us. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

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