Quotes About Discipline

in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

Practise a thousand times, and it becomes difficult; a thousand thousand, and it becomes easy; a thousand thousand times a thousand thousand, and it is no longer Thou that doeth it, but It that doeth itself through thee.

The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense use in attaining the mental powers necessary in Magick; on the other hand, the discipline of Magick is of the greatest service in Yoga.

Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise: But late to watch and early to pray Brings him across The Abyss, they say.

it was once necessary to proclaim the entire doctrine of Yoga in the fewest possible words.... I did so. "Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out!" The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.

Encuentro que la vida es aburrida y estúpida por falta de imaginación. Demasiada razón, demasiada disciplina en todo.

Se sei una conchiglia, è importante l'ordine. Se sei guscio e animale, tutto deve essere perfetto. L'esattezza ti salverà.

The answer is to draw a line between a businessman's risk and a loss. As traders, we always take businessman's risks, but we may never take a loss greater than this predetermined risk.

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En realidad, encuentro que el porcentaje de inversores exitosos es mayor entre las mujeres. Como grupo, tienden a ser más disciplinadas y menos arrogantes que los hombres.

And if there's bad behaviour, Mma Potokwane went on. If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love. That always works, you know. People say we must punish when there is wrongdoing, but if you punish you're only punishing yourself. And what's the point of that?

If you did not keep your yard in reasonable order, then your whole life would be similarly untidy. A messy yard told Mma Ramotswe everything she needed to know about its owner.

When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.

She had always worked as hard as she could, at everything she did, and she simply did not understand how anybody could do otherwise. How could they sit there, as they did, and stare into the space in front of their desks when they could be adding up figures or checking the drivers' returns?

He knew that one should not punch people who annoyed one, although there was a case for it at times, a seemingly irresistible case.

Computers change the way we deal with words," Dr. Macgregor continued. "They somehow unlock language in the mind. But they do so in a very particular way – they induce Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, I suppose we should call it logorrhoea, a sort of verbal diarrhoea. The words come tumbling out and people feel they can go on and on. And they do. Poetry has to be much more disciplined, much more concise.

A society that undermined its teachers and their authority only dug away at its own sure foundations.

In high school, Jake and Arjun had been straight A students who were heavily involved in school activities and did not party.

He could be disciplined when he wanted to be.

Order is the key to all problems.

As you discipline your prayer-life to pray more and more in the Spirit, you will become more and more sensitive to the Holy Ghost. You will begin to experience what is known as "being led by the Spirit.

Perhaps more than an American high school, Japan is like an English public school. You are supposed to learn, excel, and win athletic distinctions—not for yourself, but for the house and for the country, for being Japanese. First on the field, all for the sake of your school. And then, the emptiness when you graduate.

The alternative to discipline is disaster. VANCE HAVNER