Quotes About Discipline

Korporal Jääskeläinen ble enda mer perpleks da det ikke var søvnige rekrutter som kom krypende ut av teltet, men en illsint offiser i bakrus. Urho ble redd, det var faktisk en ekte oberst som fylte døråpningen, i full uniform med skulderklaffer og det hele, og med tre gylne roser på kragespeilet. Urho Jääskeläinen stilte seg instinktivt i stram givakt: – Oberst! Korporal Jääskeläinen, tolv kyr, tretten mann alle!

Always that damned discipline that you wear like chain mail ... You would have got on well with Bernard de Clairvaux and his gang of Knights Templar. If you'd been captured by Saladin, I'm sure you'd rather have had your throat cut than renounce your faith. But not from devotion, from pride.

Manuel Azaña, por ejemplo, resumió bastante bien el paisaje en sus memorias, cuando escribió aquello de Reducir aquellas masas a la disciplina, hacerlas entrar en una organización militar del Estado, con mandos dependientes del gobierno, para sostener la guerra conforme a los planes de un estado mayor, constituyó el problema capital de la República.

nunca fueron más disciplinados los tercios que cuando se amotinaban.

El que Todo lo Sabe ha dicho que todas las oraciones y toda la ascética, no importa por cuanto tiempo se practiquen, se cultivan en vano si el pensamiento permanece indolente o distraído.

Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.

How do they know what to do?" Mary Frances said. "To just rip into a building like that and expect it to stay standing." "For the parts you want to stay standing," Tim said. "Exactly." "Practice," Al said. "And of course, one of them is in charge." Mary Frances studied the tangle of men, all dressed alike, movingly easily together. "I can't tell them apart." "Well, it's like war, I guess," Al said. "If you knew whom to blame, it'd be too easy to shoot him.

Every day there were three shifts of police. When they changed shifts, the two troopers would salute the sergeant. Some saluted an army salute, but others saluted like the nazis did in Germany. They held their hands in front of them and clicked their heels.

Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified, and raises man to the throne of God.

What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can't even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at.

You'll report nobody," says Kerrigan in a voice trembling with rage. "Up here we don't run to headquarters with our problems." "I know regulations. A noncom–" "We left regulations in the rear. They were too goddamned heavy to carry.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

Compreender que sonhos sem disciplina produzem pessoas frustradas; disciplina sem sonhos produz autômatos, que só obedecem a ordens.

the battle for structure.

There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless "law" is equated with justice and "order" with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done.

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

Always know the value of your time, don't waste it on frivolous things.

Lisa had an engineer's way of shrugging off the entire field of the humanities, all three thousand years of it, as self-indulgent fuzzy thinking.

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.

The first thing you lose on a diet is your sense of humor.

I think I just ate my willpower.

Dieting is not a piece of cake.

Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.