Quotes About Discipline

Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.

If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.

What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.

The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.

The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better.

Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it.

Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.

Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible.

Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur.

I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

Don't talk too much. Don't pop off. Don't talk after the game until you cool off.

Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance.

If we're not careful we spiritualize laziness.

Successful people willingly do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.

My own heart has to be under constant check by Jesus.

Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there.