Quotes About Discipline

Technique is the main thing when it comes to success at the top level. The sound temperament comes into work only when you have a sound technique.

As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.

Guilford thought he knew what science was. It was nothing more than curiosity … tempered by humility, disciplined with patience. Science

They wanted to know about Commando Sabre.

Efficiency and focus are the keys to success.

That dog is a Marine!

Hazing was against regulations but it was sometimes necessary for the formation of discipline, and by God! Private Reynolds had been in need of some proper Army discipline.

It's like anything you do; if you want to do it well, you have to work at it.

Eldar never had the discipline her father had, nor did he appreciate hard work. He quit too easily. He wanted things handed to him, and he usually got them.

Therefore in this more biblical way of looking at things joy (beatitude) is the consequence and not the enemy of law. What Jesus gives us in the Sermon on the Mount, therefore, is that new law that would discipline our desires, our minds, and our bodies so as to make real happiness possible.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.

I can not trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

The point of the story is that even a highly disciplined investor can't see a market bottom any more easily than he can see the top.

Without loyalty all the training in the world is useless. Worse than useless.

When I was in Berlin then, Nazism did not have the reputation it has now. Nazism? In every system in the world, you can find something good. But Nazism was not Nazism at all. The word came afterwards. In their system, I saw discipline. And we in the Middle East, we needed discipline more than anything else.

When I was in Berlin then, Nazism did not have the reputation it has now. Nazism? In every system in the world, you can find something good. But Nazism was not Nazism at all. The word came afterwards. In their system, I saw discipline. And we in the Middle East, we needed discipline more than anything else. -Pierre Gemayel

Secondary choices are always subordinate to a primary choice. Often there is no reason to make such choices outside the context of the primary choice that calls for them. Athletes and musicians may not enjoy practicing long hours, but they do so just the same; not out of duty, obligation, or any other form of self-manipulation, but because they are making secondary choices consistent with their primary choice to be able to perform music or excel at sports.

It is natural for us to avoid pain and conflict. So, seeking the truth is not something we do by nature. It is a discipline, and like every discipline, is not natural. As we build our life as art, one discipline we will need to master is fluency in reality. We need to know exactly how it is. We will need to raise our level of objectivity, discernment, and awareness.

The act of shopping for what he needed, and of setting up the bare necessities for himself, had lulled Strike back into the familiar soldierly state of doing what needed to be done, without question or complaint.