Quotes About Discipline

I won't say another word -- not one. I know I talk too much, but I am really trying to overcome it, and although I say far too much, yet if you only knew how much I want to say and don't, you'd give me some credit for it.

It does people good to have to do things they don't like...in moderation.

It's a very bad habit to put off disagreeable things...

But betray too eager curiosity she would not.

She and Diana talked so constantly about it all day that with a stricter teacher than Mr. Phillips dire disgrace must inevitably have been their portion.

When Marilla took Anne up to bed that night she said stiffly: Now, Anne, I noticed last night that you threw your clothes all about the floor when you took them off. That is a very untidy habit, and I can't allow it at all. As soon as you take off any article of clothing fold it neatly and place it on the chair. I haven't any use at all for little girls who aren't neat.

The current decline of America and the rise of Japan was due, obviously, to forgetting that simple and essential lesson. Don't eat your dessert until you deserve it. Don't spend your money until you've earned it. Don't take your pleasure until you're stronger than pleasure and can prove it.

Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.

We got all day to break horses.

As we approached the forty-five-day mark, we heard that it was an ancient tradition at that monastery to spend one week in the middle of the ninety days without any sleep at all.

Followed rules, not dreams. Never again. -Margaret Hellerstein

Obeying the order you don't approve of is the only real proof of obedience. She taught me that.

You can't finish the things you weren't supposed to start.

Ironing was an act of annihilation in which wrinkles would die and give way to order: something she required more than anything.

For dinner they ate the stewed pumpkin with their bread. They made it into pretty shapes on their plates. It was a beautiful color, and smoothed and molded so prettily with their knives. Ma never allowed them to play with their food at table; they must always eat nicely everything that was set before them, leaving nothing on their plates. But she did let them make the rich, brown, stewed pumpkin into pretty shapes before they ate it.

Success gets to be a habit, like anything else a fellow keeps on doing.

This year the teacher was a slim, pale young man. His name was Mr. Corse. He was gentle and patient, and never whipped little boys because they forgot how to spell a word. Almanzo

Then Father said: "If the teacher has to thrash you again, Royal, I'll give you a thrashing you'll remember.

Successful people know that small things done repeatedly have great power.

The discipline of joy requires holding in the mind simultaneously that this too shall pass and that this too is good. This alchemy of mind isn't easy, but the good life is not always the easy life. Happiness requires effort. It is not just bestowed; it is the earned interest on what you choose to pay in.

Being off the clock implies time freedom, yet time freedom stems from time discipline. You must know where the time goes in order to transcend the ceaseless ticking.

That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't been innocent for years.

on the job there was nothing but the job. You left the shit outside the door. You could always pick it up on your way back out.

Slow is steady. Steady is smooth. Smooth is fast. Fast is deadly.