Quotes About Discipline

To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less than His children. For every father must discipline His children, and paternal discipline is itself a mercy, a fatherly expression of love.

Each movement is only learned after you've perfected the one before it.

Those prancing little pants-wetters come here to learn the colorful and gentlemanly art of fencing, with its many sporting limitations and its proscriptions against dishonorable engagements. You on the other hand, you are going to learn how to kill men with a sword .

If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time." Chinese Proverb

I've still got my hands full training those giggling idiots out of every bad habit they picked up from you and replacing them with the bad habits I need.

If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

Taiji is a discipline for training your mind to catch spirit power bounced from your feet to your hands.

Hmm. You know, nobody gives me the time, either. I have to make the time, set priorities, discipline myself to get my writing done each day, no matter how tired I am. I worked a full-time regular job while I wrote my first novels, scraping out an hour here or there in evenings and weekends. That's how I've become a successful author.

Hmm. You know, nobody gives me the time, either. I have to make the time, set priorities, discipline myself to get my writing done each day, no matter how tired I am.

Baumeister says that people who succeed don't have more willpower than you: they just develop better daily routines and habits, which after a while become automatic and require less thought — less conscious energy.

Whoever heeds life-giving correction will be at home among the wise. Those who disregard discipline despise themselves, but the one who heeds correction gains understanding. (Prov. 15:31–32 NIV)

Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. (Rev. 3:19–20)

May we come to the point where we'd sooner avoid oxygen and water than the means of grace.

It's my rule never to lose my temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

I do like athletes as they have amazing self-discipline.

In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.

When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited.

By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

I was always in the gym. People would look at me crazy because I spent so much time there. But that's what it was about. I'm glad I did it.