Quotes About Discipline

His own habits of self-discipline, and his preference for cleanliness and order over squalor and chaos, had been forged largely in reaction to his mother's lifestyle. Strike had spent too many hours of his youth enduring the tedium of the perennially stoned to find either pleasure or excitement in the haze of drink, drugs and rock music that had been Leda's natural habitat.

person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself, and is unworthy of respect.

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

Despise The Free Lunch

I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.

Few fallacies are more dangerous or easier to fall into than that by which, having read a given book, we assume that we will continue to know its contents permanently, or having mastered a discipline in the past, we assume that we control it in the present. Philosophically speaking, "to learn" is a verb with not legitimate tense.

Chaos serves no social end.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

The brain can be a wonderful tool, can be a willing slave, as has been evidenced by some men, but of course it works poorly when it has not the habit of usage. An automobile can become a source of delight, but the first time you drive you are as apt to go up a tree as to go up the road.

Against diseases here the strongest fence Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.

Perry "puts all the bad apples in one barrel" so they don't wreck other teams. He then assigns a no-nonsense coach to lead the bad apples or does it himself—he is adept at dispensing tough love.

The officer was also proud of the thick skin he developed during his over twenty years in the U.S. Marines and National Guard—an admirable quality in a soldier or police officer, but it proved to be a double-edged sword

In school, we are all taught to stay in our seats until we are dismissed, which enables teachers to maintain discipline and create a more orderly classroom. But these lessons in conformity can hurt us later in life. Much as you look for the fire exits in a theater or hotel, it is wise to always keep looking for socially acceptable exit options.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Careful and clear thinking requires a certain rigor; it is a skill, and, like all skills, it requires training, practice, and vigilance.

Galatians 5:23 Gentleness, self-control.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time." — Charles Dickens, in David Copperfield

A solid routine fosters a well-worn groove for one's mental energies and helps stave off the tyranny of moods." —Mason Currey, in Daily Rituals

Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed. – Mark 1:35

I tried to (and still do) live by the words of Abraham Lincoln: "If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe.

You develop a positive mental attitude by being good at what you do, by understanding the realities of what it takes to succeed, and by having the self-discipline to base your actions on those realities.

they were expected to, well, to be sciencing by oh eight hundred.

No hay beneficio sin sacrificio» y «Quien temprano se acuesta, temprano se levanta...».

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.