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Quotes About Discipline

The spirit is something to be enjoyed. It is not a harsh discipline. And I think people should take some time everyday for some kind of moving meditation, like Qigong or Tai Chi.
~ Shirley MacLaine
Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
I write in the mornings. During my down time.
~ Stanley Tucci
Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.
~ Statius
I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but for me it was every waking moment.
~ Steve Vai
If you make time each month to give your money some attention, you'll start the next year in fabulous financial shape.
~ Suze Orman
For me, I make a schedule and I pass the time. I don't think about the transformation. When my schedule says I'm finished on this day, I put it in the past and go toward my future.
~ Tehching Hsieh
Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.
~ William Osler
I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.
~ Elliott Gould
If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.
~ Ewan McGregor
If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.
~ Frank Shorter
In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate the self that gets in the way of perfect play.
~ Frederick Lenz
God knows there is never a convenient time to fast.
~ Jentezen Franklin
Mr. Cukor is a hard task-master, a fine director and he took me over the coals giving me the roughest time I have ever had. And I am eternally grateful.
~ Joan Crawford
The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.
~ John Locke
Go beyond what you feel like doing and do what's right. Every time you do what's right when you don't feel like it, you are growing.
~ Joyce Meyer
But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.
~ Julia Cameron
Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, runners believed they didn't have to do anything but run
~ Amby Burfoot
I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.
~ Craig Johnston
I have lots of interests, but it's true that dancing is a very full-time job.
~ Deborah Bull
You practice with wet balls all the time.
~ Ed Cunningham
Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.
~ Oswald Chambers