Quotes About Discipline

One thing that golf teaches you is humility.

It really shaped me as a person going to DeMatha. Anyone that plays athletics or does music or does whatever, it teaches them to work to the best of their abilities.

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

Writing for Mills and Boon taught me a lot of discipline. You have to produce books in a short time scale and four a year, and it teaches you a lot.

Being a dancer or athlete of any type teaches you the fundamentals of discipline... and the ability to know you can grow.

My main goal for taking up acting as a profession was to show that sport or MMA teaches you life skills that can be applied to any profession in the world.

I think sports is good for goal setting, and I think it teaches you some important values.

Dancing really teaches you to be aware of your body, and that transitioned well into wrestling.

Playing sports is great when you're young. It teaches you how to focus, how to direct your energy, how not to think about a million other things that are going on.

I have a talent for coming up with an analogy about martial arts training for everything. It's because training to improve your martial arts skills and training to step into a cage and fight another person teaches you a lot about... everything.

By doing something repeatedly, one's mind becomes sharper. It teaches you dedication.

I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.

I think corporal punishment is the shortest, most impatient, flawed way of teaching or making a child understand something.

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.

An essential part of teaching children to be disciplined and responsible is to have them learn to work.

For months, I slept at work, even though I had an apartment. I'd fall asleep on the floor at 4:30 A.M. By 7 A.M., I was up and ready to start teaching every class.

When you're one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

I don't want a brat on my team.

If you got to Manchester City, if you don't work, you're out of the team.

I'd never played on a team until high school. It gave me a sense of belonging, a focus, and helped build my confidence. I liked the feeling of accomplishment and the respect. Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.

My coach... tells me not to focus on a knockout, and to follow the team game plan.