Quotes About Discipline

If you are serious enough to take up the discipline of fasting, you can expect resistance, interference and opposition. Plan for it, insofar as you are able. Do not be caught unawares. Remember that you are attempting to advance in your spiritual journey and to gain ground for the Kingdom. That necessitates taking ground away from the enemy - and no great movement of the Holy Spirit goes unchallenged by the enemy. (Intro)

The goal of any discipline is freedom. If the result is not greater freedom, something is wrong. (Chapter 1)

Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom-discipline, tolerance, honesty-is one of the most important ways children learn how to function in society at large.

Una cola que a veces da la vuelta a la esquina y que los neoyorquinos guardan con disciplina porque es un país obsesionado con las colas, no sólo con respetarlas sino por situarse, como en el colegio, unos detrás de los otros, sin tonterías.

Teaching our children to be well-behaved, good citizens is proper as far as it goes. But we must never mistake this training for Christian nurture or discipline, nor should we mistake their acquiescence to our social mores as true Christian righteousness.

Never overdo anything, always have a limit and do keep to it. For, that's just what it means to be self-controlled. ~Emeasoba George

Perseverance (continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition) is one of the most difficult disciplines. But interestingly, it is the one who perseveres that wins it all. -Emeasoba George

Self control is all about having a firm hand i.e. self control is strict discipline/control of one's emotions and actions. Are you self controlled or not? If NO then, you've got to strictly discipline/control your emotions/actions. For, you ought to do just that.

Until you control and overcome your thoughts/actions/feelings/weaknesses believe me or don't, you are not at all self-controlled.

What makes bad poets worse is that they read only poets (just as bad philosophers read only philosophers), whereas they would benefit much more from a book of botany or geology. We are enriched only by frequenting disciplines remote from our own. This is true, of course, only for realms where the ego is rampant.

The ideal: to be able to repeat oneself like... Bach.

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

Great men [women] never complain about the lack of time. Alexander the Great and John Wesley accomplished everything they did in twenty-four-hour days. FRED SMITH

L'Incorruttibile, severo nel suo portamento, elegante nel suo vestire, non prese mai parte a una dimostrazione né si confuse mai con i cittadini comuni adottandone lo stile e i simboli.

Alla vigilia della "marcia su Roma", durante un convegno del Pnf tenuto a Napoli (24 ottobre 1922), il duce proclamò che il fascismo rispettava la monarchia e l'esercito, riconosceva il valore della religione cattolica, intendeva attuare una politica liberista favorevole al capitale privato e restaurare l'ordine e la disciplina nel paese.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

The mistake of military ethics is, to exaggerate the conceptions of discipline, and so to present the moral force of the will in a barer form than it ever ought to take: military morals can direct the axe to cut down the trees, but it knows nothing of the quiet force by which the forest grows.

The English gentleman has ever loved a nice and classical scholarship. But these advantages were open only to persons who had received a very strict training, and who were voluntarily disposed to discipline themselves still more. To the mass of mankind the University was a "graduating machine"; the colleges, monopolist residences,—hotels without bells.

Most poets must be prohibited; the exercise of the fancy requires watching.

I accepted that a new kind of hate had emerged, silent and disciplined, a racism tempered by loyalty cards and PIN numbers. Shopping was now the model for all human behavior, drained of emotion and anger.

One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.

Acting is the laziest of the professions. A ballet dancer must limber up two or three hours a day, working or idle. The great musicians practice three or four hours a day, willy-nilly. Opera singers must go easy on cigarettes, learn half a dozen languages. The demands on an actress consist in learning the role, interpreting to the best of her ability the intent of the author as outlined by the director. When not on stage? She sits around chewing her nails, waiting for the telephone to ring.