Quotes About Discipline

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

era un hombre rutinario y ordenado. Su minuciosidad y formalidad rozaban sin duda la obsesión; creía que imponer tanta disciplina a su vida cotidiana era la única forma segura de intentar interpretar el desconcierto y el caos que sus pacientes le acercaban a diario.

I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality.

They drum that into you: discipline trumps courage. In a fight, the people who win are the ones who do what they're told. It's not like it is in films. Don't be brave, just do what you're told.

teacher's class in his all-boys' high school

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

It is only practice that improves our minds as well as bodies, and we must expect nothing from our understandings any farther than they are perfected by habits.

Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark.

Conscientious individuals are ruled by their heads. Emotions, urges, whims, or hungers do not often get the best of them.

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

In the martial art of Karate, for instance, the symbol of pride for a black belt is to wear it long enough such that the die fades to white as to symbolize returning to the beginner state.

Karate'de siyah kuÅŸak ta??ma onurunun simgesi, kuÅŸa??, rengi solup beyaza dönene dek takmakt?r ki bu da baÅŸlang?çtaki duruma dönüÅŸü ifade eder.

Prayer is a ubiquitous practice in nearly all religions, but it is seldom understood. Prayer is not magic, meditation, or positive thinking. It remains a puzzle to science and a paradoxical discipline to psychology.

She chastised herself and considered calling back, but in the end she had the good sense to return to reading Stephen Crane.

Restraint was a mountaintop on a faraway continent.

I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.

Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions."

Barringer, Janice, and Sarah Schlesinger. The Pointe Book: Shoes, Training & Technique . Hightstown, NJ: Princeton Book Company, 1998, 2004.

Four ingredients help make self-control possible: humor, prayer, work, and friends.

The way to tame a wild thing is not to pursue it, but to make it pursue you. This is the way Merlins have always been brought to heel.

There was, as far as Garrett understood, no actual reason why incantations were in Latin or Greek, Aramaic or Hebrew, other than tradition and mystique. But she found the discipline useful.

In situations of crisis, it was always best to rely on routine.