Quotes About Discipline

A purpose-directed, disciplined action always bring success.

Excellence is not a history, but a habit.

Great habits sharpen our thoughts and make us great.

Thoughts and imaginations will fade away if you don't act on them.

His father, who had rebelled early against his Scots Presbyterian upbringing and declared himself an "intellectual agnostic"—or had it been "agnostic intellectual"?—had protested, but his mother insisted that the human animal had a need for structure, for ritual and discipline, for the ties with the community that the church provided, and for a sense of something larger than itself.

With determined perseverance the effort eventually becomes effortless, just as eating or brushing our teeth is effortless. We learn how energy flows. After a time the exercises and ritual of meditation are no longer needed as tools for growth. They become part of us and we use them at all times. In whatever we do there is meditation in action. But we must be careful not to deceive ourselves that we are already there. This is a new evolutionary step for us and we must begin at the beginning.

Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss.

I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.

You must use your emotions to empower your passion for reaching personal goals. You must utilize your intellect to strategize, and finally you must detach your awareness to acquire the sobriety needed to achieve those goals. In other words, you need to cycle between the passion generated by your fears and desires and the rational thoughts associated with self-control and discipline

I m up at 5 in the morning and in bed by 10 in the evening.

One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.

Disciplined investors who rely on low-cost index funds for the long term have done better than most of their peers and the professionals."

The best way to implement the key principles is with low management fee index funds, which help you diversify, minimize costs, stay disciplined and capture market returns wherever they may occur," says Dejan Ilijevski, president at Sabela Capital Markets in Munster, Indiana.

To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

The "hillbilly" girls were generating more enriched Tubealloy per run than the PhDs had...The District Engineer understood perfectly. Those girls...had been trained like soldiers. Do what you're told. Don't ask why.

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.

As I preach to my congregation every Sunday when it comes to staying afloat financially and living within your means, there is nothing easy about easy payments. Learn to say the words "I can't afford it." —Kirbyjon Caldwell

Frugality is one of the essentials of success," he quipped. "It is the unwritten law of wealth.

Do the right thing. Do your job and forget about everything else—and that means the press. Today's headline wraps tomorrow's garbage.

a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstances permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses' only results. —ART TUROCK

You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in a 7-Eleven, OK?

I remember once my kid got in trouble for saying to his teacher, "What time is fucking recess?" and I remember thinking, "Now where would he fucking pick up something like that?

Learn the writer's craft, write regularly, grow to love the practice for its own sake-and inspiration will either come on a particular day or it won't, but you'll have prepared the way for it.