Quotes About Discipline

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take action.

It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

You become what you do most of the time.

Hammer out the drawing. Unremitting, persistent effort will bend a stubborn ungainly sketch into a graceful finished drawing. We become tough, hardened drawing veterans.

Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

There is no royal road to learning no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

It had at this time become my custom… to write with my watch before me, and to require from myself 250 words every quarter of an hour. I have found that the 250 words have been forthcoming as regularly as my watch went.

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."

Unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

If you are dazzled by the appearance of a promised pleasure, guard yourself against being carried away by it; but let the matter wait, and allow yourself some delay. Then bring to mind both points of time: that in which you will enjoy the pleasure, and that in which you will repent and reproach yourself after you have enjoyed it; and set before you, in opposition to these, how you will rejoice and praise yourself if you abstain.

On the question of speaking, Stoics and Buddhists are at one. In Epictetus' words: 'Be mostly silent, or speak merely when necessary, and in few words. We may enter sparingly into conversation sometimes, when the occasion calls for it; but not about any of the common subjects, such as gladiators, or horse races, or athletic champions, or food, or drink – the vulgar topics of conversation; and especially not about individuals, either to blame, or praise, or make comparisons.

In Buddhism, there are different levels of ethical teachings. The basic rules for good conduct are set out in the precepts. There are five precepts for lay people and rather more for monks. For lay people, the precepts advise refraining from: harming living creatures taking what is not given sexual misconduct false speech taking intoxicants that cause heedlessness

Epictetus has this to say about the role of habits: 'Generally then, if you want to make something a habit, practise it; and if you do not want to make it a habit, do not do it, but get in the habit of doing something else. It is the same in relation to things of the mind.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

You must leave your imagination behind or it will do you harm.

A person who does think of his brain can't drink liquor or wine, feels often pain in life and remains away from women.

A person who shuns physical hard work in own profession requires in the same proportion to do bodily exercise like Jogging , Walking , Cycling etc to maintain healthy body and the fitness program or challenge is for malingerer, not sincere worker.

Hard work does pay rich dividends, but not necessarily the way what most people who have to burn their calories through workout in the morning everyday have to often say

Sports stadium is meant only for playing the game, not acting or drama on the same.