Quotes About Discipline

Orthodox Judaism does not place undue emphasis on hellfire and damnation, nor are children specially pressured to search their souls for sin. But the priorities of a cheder education were anything but material. Read, read, read. Study, study, study. These were the objectives of school — and of life itself.

But two things might restrain a man in the Great Debauch: malaria and guard duty.

Que un centinela se emborrache y luego deserte de su puesto y entregue su arma supone combinar un pecado mortal con un delito imperdonable.

He scolds the whole staff when one person is late for a meeting

The essential key for writing is to write regularly — like it or not — great ideas come often by writing; releasing the subconscious — waiting for inspiration and ideas will not work, but it does help to have a notebook with you all the time for sudden brainstorms or inspiration.

Robert Masello

People who struggle with kaizen do so not because the steps are hard but because they are easy. They can't overcome the cultural training that says change must always be instantaneous, it must always require steely self-discipline, and it must never be pleasurable.

All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

If you cannot get control of yourself, do not try to get rich.

Pay yourself first: the power of self-discipline If

If you have any desire to be rich, you must focus. Do not do what poor and middle-class people do: put their few eggs in many baskets. Put a lot of your eggs in a few baskets and focus. Follow One Course Until Successful.

We grasp one thing after another, and when we have grasped a thing, it is as if it possessed us. Not we possess it, but the opposite: whatever we have apparently acquired rules over us then. It is impressed upon us that a beneficent effect is to be had from acquiring a little that is firm and definite, that is to say, from growing accustomed and shaping oneself to laws and commands that prescribe a strict external discipline. Perhaps we're being stupefied, certainly we're being made small.

The best-trained part of us, though, is the mouth, it ?is always obediently and devoutly shut. And it's only too true: an open mouth is a yawning fact, the fact that its owner is dwelling with his few thoughts in some other place than the domain and pleasure-garden of attentiveness.

If you are determined on the religious life, you have to toughen up your mind. You have to let it be a thouroughfare for all thoughts, and among them you must make choices.

You and I have precisely the same amount of time as the Old Masters— twenty-four hours in every day. There is no more, and never any less.

First rule: If your dog doesn't do what you want, it's your fault.

Ancient Rule of Twenty-one: if you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.

I've learned about leadership is that leaders are those individuals who do the things that failures aren't willing to do—even though they might not like doing them either. They have the discipline to do what they know to be important—and right—versus what's easy and fun.

When I need to feel motivated, I might repeat, 'I am inspired, disciplined and energized' out loud two or three hundred times.

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

a nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.

We need to sharpen our focus & live to the point just like a pencil.

Brez discipline in volje, si izgubljen kot pomorš?ak brez kompasa, ki na koncu potone z ladjo vred.

Sweat more in practice, bleed less in war.