Quotes About Discipline

The discipline to rise early is not as difficult as the discipline of going to bed. This did not used to be so. Before electricity and radio and television and the Internet, going to bed soon after dark was not so difficult. There was not much to do. Today the strongest allurements to stay up and be entertained are against us. Therefore, the battle against weariness, which makes us drowsy as soon as we open our Bible in the morning, has to be fought in the evening, not just in the morning.

If you cannot embrace the pain of learning but must have instant gratification, you forfeit the greatest rewards of life.

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

Sanctification in any area of our lives always expresses this double dimension—a putting off and a putting on, as it were. Speech and silence, appropriately expressed, are together the mark of the mature.3

If the physicists seem to achieve their ends more successfully than the theologians, that is simply a reflection of how much easier science is than theology.

A maior parte do talento musical advém mais da formação do que da inspiração.

There's no better way to mess up a good cowdog than to let him discover that goofing off beats the heck out of hard work.

Finally, moral philosophy was always the exercise of free, disciplined reason alone. It was not based on religion, much less on revelation, since civic religion did not offer a rival to it. In seeking moral ideals more suited than those of the Homeric age to the society and culture of fifth-century Athens, Greek moral philosophy from the beginning stood more or less by itself.

The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen.

It is best to call it the 3 2 2 Regimen. It is a 7 step morning routine that is grouped into 3 sets: 3 - Reflect, Read, and Write 2 - Plan and Prepare 2 - Exercise and Eat

The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.

How do you prevent a little sociopath from becoming a big, full-blown sociopath? Sit on him.

The more attention you pay to your child, the less attention he will pay to you.

Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

Once a response becomes a habit, you stop learning. Theoretically, you could act differently, but in practice you do not. Habits are extremely useful, they streamline the parts of our lives we do not want to think about...But there is an art to deciding what parts of your life you want to turn over to habit, and what parts of your life you want to continue to learn from and have choice about. This is a key question of balance.

To clench one's teeth, to be realistic, but not to compromise, to press on, in spite of the absolute weariness of the million inevitable failures of any great task—that is discipline.

Train hard, fight easy.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

lest the habit of work should be broken, and a taste for idleness acquired

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.

Regimentation, methodization, systematization, standardization, organization, coordination, disciplined arrangements, conformity -- these things are at the very heart of our national state policies, and are the poison that has killed our families and left individual survivors in a numbed, angry, nearly hysterical condition.

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.