Quotes About Discipline

Honor, I thought. For real: the guardians should have taught it. Because I hadn't learned it.

Rose Hathaway: "what's with all the running, anyway? I mean, I realize the importance of stamina and all that, but shouldn't I be moving on to something with a little hitting? They're still killing me in group practice." Dimitri Belikov: "Maybe you should hit harder.

Rose Hathaway: "You see something you like?" Dimitri Belikov: "Get dressed.

If you don't have anything useful to offer, then get out of here and let us wait until hunger weakens Sonya." And by get out of here , I meant: foolishly think you're going to leave so that I can knock your heads together and drag you back to the guardians.

Rose: "You see something you like?" Dimitri: "Get dressed." -Rose Hathaway & Dimitri Belikov (Vampire Academy)

Can't you ever get off for good behavior?" "Sure, if I was ever good.

What have you gotten me into?" I hissed to him. "Me? What have you gotten yourself into? Couldn't I have just picked you up at the police station for underage drinking, like most fathers?

Important? It's essential," I said. "I'm always at least ten minutes early.

Huye de las cosas que suelen provocar malos pensamientos… y apégate a lo que provoque en ti el deseo de hacer el bien. 2 TIMOTEO 2:22 (BAD)

Willpower works for a few weeks, or maybe a month or two at best.

Our habits control our lives. We shape our habits; then our habits shape us.

When God seems distant, you may feel that he is angry with you or is disciplining you for some sin. In fact, sin does disconnect us from intimate fellowship with God. We grieve God's Spirit and quench our fellowship with him by disobedience, conflict with others, busyness, friendship with the world, and other sins.10

Ignoring a temptation is far more effective than fighting.

Yet partial obedience is disobedience.

It is not always convenient or comfortable, and sometimes worship is a sheer act of the will--a willing sacrifice.

Infosys is quite disciplined about its selection of customers, refusing to serve those who do not help the company to develop new sources of value.

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him...A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.

The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.

I usually carried with me six loaded plates, which allowed me only six exposures, so that clicking the shutter even once was a serious business that had to be carefully thought out beforehand.

Ik heb gemerkt, juffrouw Engel, in mijn lange loopbaan in het onderwijs, dat een rotmeisje veel gevaarlijker is dan een rotjongen. Bovendien zijn ze veel moeilijker klein te krijgen. Een rotmeisje te grazen nemen is als achter een bromvlieg aan zitten. Je mept erop en het gore kreng is alweer weg. Rotmormeld, die meisjes.

Get up at once, you lazy little beast!

screamed the Trunchbull and she marched off the platform followed closely by the cook.

When she marched—Miss Trunchbull never walked, she always marched like a storm-trooper with long strides and arms aswinging—when she marched along a corridor you could actually hear her snorting as she went, and if a group of children happened to be in her path, she ploughed right on through them like a tank, with small people bouncing off her to left and right.

Find your rituals, develop your routines, create those practices that ground and center you. Stick to them, don't apologize for them, treat them, even the small things, like they're big things.