Quotes About Discipline

Those who had spent a whole night, or sometimes three whole nights, cramped and cold, with a bursting bladder, while they guided a telescope to keep the pinpoint of a faint star in the cross-hair of an eyepiece, knew the advantages of a fast telescope.

You never get to the face because the body's so good." (Referring to Steffi Graf)49

As a heterosexual ballet dancer, you develop a thick skin.

I urge every parent to become a Loving Hard-Ass Parent.

In the convent, she'd been taught to walk with eyes downcast. Now, Father Damien tipped his chin out and narrowed his gaze, focused straight ahead.

ago AIM patrol had caught some towhead Wisconsin boys trying to rob a liquor store. 'They came down hard on those boys,' he said to Hetta. 'You could call it cruel and unusual.' 'Dad? What'd they do?' 'Made them call their moms.' 'So, like, it was Hi, Mom, come get me I got caught looting?

Children don't know the law. Their parents slap them to teach them the law and protect them from pleasure. There's

Remove yourself from temptation. Don't even look at something if you know you shouldn't have it.

As he always did before retiring, so tonight he pulled out a drawer of his night table and took from it a small black ledger in which he wrote down the day's expenditures in a script so small that he could have written the Lord's Prayer on the heads of pins with it.

It is important to be totally prepared, though it is equally important to make sure that you don't overtrain.

Harpernus Stoyan, if you can't behave yourself and go and turn all Roman hands and Russian Fingers under that comforter, you're going to have to sit on the couch, Stephanie snapped, sounding for all the world like a stern schoolteacher.

Alexander also controlled me. Made me do things I didn't want to do." "Isn't that kind of the job of a parent?" Elvi asked, and then said, "Not the controlling part, but making the kid do things they don't want to do. Although," she said thoughtfully, "even the controlling part is something parents have to do too, only it's usually done with rewards, grounding, and threats of punishment rather than straight-up taking control.

It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by strict method, by stern discipline, by rigid attention to detail, by ceaseless labor, by the fixed determination of an indomitable will.

punctual discharge of his irksome duties.

Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call.

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

Self-discipline is self-caring.

Laziness is love's opposite.

Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.

With total discipline we can solve all problems.

They are not burdened by any need to hide. They do not have to slink around in the shadows. They do not have to construct new lies to hide old ones. They need waste no effort covering tracks or maintaining disguises. And ultimately they find that the energy required for the self-discipline of honesty is far less than the energy required for secretiveness. The more honest one is, the easier it is to continue being honest, just as the more lies one has told, the more necessary it is to lie again.

Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process.

Balancing is a discipline precisely because the act of giving something up is painful.

Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.