Quotes About Discipline

In omni disciplina informa est artis praeceptio sine summa assiduitate exercitationis.

Sex is like a drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.

Love is a discipline, like prayer," I said.

It is the strict adherence to daily routine that tends towards the maintenance of good morale and the preservation of sanity," he says out loud.

At our school, pink was for spring and summer, plum was for fall and winter, white was for special days: Sundays and celebrations. Arms covered, hair covered, skirts down to the knee before you were five and no more than two inches above the ankle after that, because the urges of men were terrible things and those urges needed to be curbed.

The liver is evil and must be punished.

Sex is like drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.

Becka had a lot of these control-yourself techniques. I tried to practise them. They worked some of the time.

It was the feet they'd do, for a first offense. They used steel cables, frayed at the ends. After

What virtue was once attached to this notion – of going beyond your strength, of not sparing yourself, of ruining your health! Nobody is born with that kind of selflessness: it can be acquired only by the most relentless discipline, a crushing-out of natural inclination, and by my time the knack or secret of it must have been lost. Or perhaps I didn't try, having suffered from the effects it had on my mother.

She's certainly old enough," said Aunt Vidala. "We have taught her all we can. If they stay in school too long, they become disruptive.

Junker children, girls as well, were brought up to be tough and bear pain uncomplainingly.

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

Her manners had been imposed upon her by her mother's gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were her own.

the way small Mrs. Tarleton bullied her grown sons and laid her riding crop on their backs if the occasion seemed to warrant it.

Los modales le habían sido impuestos por las amables amonestaciones y la severa disciplina de su madre;

I'm one of the few people who understands how producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real discipline.

The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That's it. I'll house you, protect you, I'll even give my life for you, and in return, you will behave.

Thanksgiving speaks in clear, crisp tones of forgotten terms, like integrity - bravery - respect - freedom - discipline - sacrifice - godliness.

Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?

I don't often spend more than half an hour in prayer at one time, but I never go more than half an hour without praying.

The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things.

No one is bigger than the team. If you can't do things our way, you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are

I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere recreation in one day than I spent in private religious devotions.