Quotes About Discipline

Antes, la teología me interesó, pero de esa fantástica disciplina (y de la fe cristiana) me desvió para siempre Schopenhauer, con razones directas;

la Regla recordaba que nadie debía conquistar un reino si antes no conquistaba su propia alma. Teóricamente, cada templario debía antes conquistar su alma para Dios. La estancia en la Orden suponía una guerra personal contra el mundo, el demonio y la carne. Sólo hombres con paz en su alma podían ser guerreros. Si las pasiones habitaban en nuestros corazones, iríamos a la guerra acompañados de nuestras pasiones.

It is a virtue, I came to believe long ago, not to make a meal out of one's emotional life. There's always enough work to do, not to mention that there's world enough outside.

However, despite our lack of facial hair, every Navajo recruit was still expected to put soap on his face each morning and scrape away his imaginary beard. What you did in boot camp did not have to make sense. You just had to do it.

Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline.

If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

Perkins's first piece of advice came from Hemingway, the only survivor of his great triumvirate of the twenties: "Always stop while you are going good. Then when you resume you have the impetus of feeling that what you last did was good. Don't wait until you are baffled and stumped.

Rappelez-vous que ce qu'on appelle une faible volonté est habituellement un signe de manque d'intérêt. La personne faible qui est facilement persuadée de jouer au tennis quand elle n'en a aucun désir est une personne qui n'a aucune idée de ce qui l'intéresse réellement. Un système disciplinaire encourage une telle personne à rester faible de volonté et futile. (p. 432)

If a parent is content with a child who has had his spirit completely broken by fear, then, for such a parent, punishment succeeds.

Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furniture is destroyed.

C'est cette distinction entre la liberté et l'anarchie que beaucoup de parents ne saisissent pas. Dans le foyer discipliné, les enfants n'ont aucun droit. Dans le foyer désordonné ils les ont tous. Le foyer équilibré est celui où les enfants et les adultes ont des droits égaux. C'est la même chose en ce qui concerne l'école. (p. 150)

To be able to do and to abstain from doing, is to be twice able.

You can't handle the truth!" - Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men.

Du moment que l'on arrête de lire, on s'engage sur la voie de la paresse intellectuelle.

There is no such thing as luck in life; it all boils down to pure hard work.

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline...

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

I was temperamentally better suited to a cognitive discipline, to an introspective field—internal medicine, or perhaps psychiatry. The sight of the operating theater made me sweat. The idea of holding a scalpel caused coils to form in my belly. (It still does.) Surgery was the most difficult thing I could imagine. And so I became a surgeon.

Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

Like working out, the first rule of success was just showing up.