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Quotes About Discipline

Gold is reserved for those who know its laws and abide by them.
~ George S. Clason
Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish.
~ George S. Clason
La voluntad no es más que la determinación inflexible de llevar a cabo lo se ha impuesto.
~ George S. Clason
Like a bright light in a dark cave thy budget shows up the leaks from thy purse and enables thee to stop them and control thy expenditures for definite and gratifying purposes
~ George S. Clason
Hay muchas cosas que me gustan, pero nada reemplaza al trabajo".
~ George S. Clason
But hereby resolve to write in this book at least twenty minutes a night. (If discouraged, just think of how much will have been recorded for posterity after one mere year!) (September 5) Oops. Missed a day.
~ George Saunders
How can Janet know she's not being her best self if someone doesn't tell her, then right away afterwards harshly discipline her?
~ George Saunders
We seem to have a strange idea of Christian service. We will buy books, travel miles to hear a speaker on blessings, pay large sums to hear a group singing the latest Christian songs--but we forget that we are soldiers.
~ George Verwer
The military was providing him (George H.W. Bush) with an education that was not available at Andover or Yale.
~ George W. Bush
It's hard to imagine how Dad managed to do it all—to be a top student, a star athlete, a man with a huge group of friends, and a devoted husband and father. As Mother put it with characteristic bluntness, "He worked hard." That's true. George Bush did not waste time. He filled every minute of every day with activity.
~ George W. Bush
My first challenge was explaining Andover to my friends in Texas. In those days, most Texans who went away to high school had discipline problems. When I told a friend that I was headed to a boarding school in Massachusetts, he had only one question: "Bush, what did you do wrong?
~ George W. Bush
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all
~ George Washington
99% OF FAILURE COME FROM PEOPLE WHO MAKE EXCUSES
~ George Washington
Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any [prisoner] ... I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause... for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country.
~ George Washington
If,said the Dowager, after a pregnant silence, I had ever dared to speak so to my grandmother, I should have been soundly whipped and confined to my bedchamber on bread-and-water for a sennight! The gravity vanished from Cressy's face. no, would you, Ma'am? How very brave your parents must have been!
~ Georgette Heyer
Wolf was Felicity's Alsatian. When fetched from the stables he evinced his satisfaction by bounding around his mistress and barking madly for the first hundred yards of their walk. Exercising him was not, as Frank knew from experience, all joy, as he was not in the least amenable to discipline, had to be caught and held at the approach of any motor vehicle, and had a habit of plunging unadvisedly into quarrels with others of the canine race.
~ Georgette Heyer
Ulysses, stop scratching! Do try to be a little more worthy of me!
~ Georgette Heyer
Of course he should be punished for doing so! I daresay he has not enough employment. One must remember that he has been used to work and should be made to do so now. It is not at all good for anyone to be perfectly idle.' 'Very true, ma'am,' agreed Mr Beaumaris meekly. Miss Tallant was not deceived. She looked sharply up at him, and bit her lip, saying after a moment: 'We are speaking of Jemmy!' 'I hoped we were,' confessed Mr Beaumaris.
~ Georgette Heyer
Watch wagged his tail. Benny looked down at him. "No, Watch," he said. "Chocolate is not one of your favorite things. Chocolate is very bad for dogs, remember? You like dog biscuits
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
The ultimate aim of karate lies not in victory nor defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants
~ Gichin Funakoshi
Any man will be able, after sufficient practice, to accomplish remarkable feats of strength, but he may go only so far and no farther. There is a limit to human physical strength that no one can exceed.
~ Gichin Funakoshi
Karate is like boiling water: without heat, it returns to it's tepid state
~ Gichin Funakoshi
I work very hard in the gym. Sometimes, I come home very late, around 1 A.M., but still I go and work out at the gym. I don't ever stop.
~ Arjun Kapoor
When I work out, I make healthier choices in all areas of life, and when I don't, I tend to slack on other things, too, so I like to keep a good routine going.
~ Elsa Hosk