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Quotes About Discipline

A lot of people don't realize, when you are acting in a martial arts film, you're not just performing martial arts. You're not just performing martial arts. You're actually acting as much as any other actor.
~ Donnie Yen
I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.
~ Tom Glazer
I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline, really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore, and that's no good. To make art you need to be inspired.
~ Greg Lake
When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity.
~ Sugar Ray Leonard
I've taught martial arts to many children, from 5 years old and up - there's character development, there's respect, discipline, perseverance.
~ Scott Coker
Cricket is not rocket science. Bowlers often get wickets through perseverance, accuracy and being patient rather than trying to blast opposition teams out.
~ Andrew Strauss
Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.
~ Pierre Loti
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
~ Pietro Aretino
I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency.
~ Plato
Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
~ Plato
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
~ Plato
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
~ Plato
nulla dies sine linea.
~ Pliny the Younger
It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
~ Plutarch
They insist upon the shaving of the moustache, I think, in order that they may accustom the young men to obedience in the most trifling matters.
~ Plutarch
For lack of rules (which the undisciplined sector of the young call freedom) sets masters over one which are more tyrannical than the teachers and trainers familiar from childhood – these masters are the desires, when they have broken out of prison, so to speak.
~ Plutarch
For lack of rules (which the undisciplined sector of the young call freedom) 3 sets masters over one which are more tyrannical [D] than the teachers and trainers familiar from childhood – these masters are the desires, when they have broken out of prison, so to speak. Just
~ Plutarch
Character is simply habit long continued.
~ Plutarch
Practicing is greater than knowing." Not better than knowing. Greater.
~ PO BRONSON
They want the centurions not so much to be venturesome and daredevils, as to be natural leaders, of a steady and reliable spirit. They do not so much want men who will initiate attacks and open the battle, but men who will hold their ground when beaten and hard-pressed, and will be ready to die at their posts.
~ Polybius
Modernism is an error which is still making its appearance under various new guises, wholly inconsistent with any genuine religious expression. It is surely an attempt on the part of secular philosophies and secular trends to vitiate the true teaching and discipline of the Church of Christ.
~ Pope Paul VI
That was the trouble with war. Leave out the toil, discipline, discomfort, scant sleep, lousy food, monotony, and combat, and war would be a fine institution.
~ Poul Anderson
Lelaki, Gus, soalnya makan, entah daun entah daging. Asal kau mengerti, Gus, semakin tinggi sekolah bukan berarti semakin menghabiskan makanan orang lain. Harus semakin mengenal batas. Kan itu tidak terlalu sulit difahami? Kalau orang tak tahu batas, Tuhan akan memaksanya tahu dengan cara-Nya sendiri.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Hanya orang dan binatang bodoh saja yang kena cambuk.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer