Quotes About Discipline

It is believed that Revson is the author of the oft-quoted statement, uttered during one long working weekend to his subordinates, "If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother to come in on Sunday.

The voice of Shame says, I basically hate me; I need to get rid of me. The voice of Discipline says, I've got to fix me, because me is not good. God says, I love you; let me restore you. I like that one best. 

The voice of Shame says, I basically hate me; I need to get rid of me. The voice of Discipline says, I've got to fix me, because me is not good. God says, I love you; let me restore you.

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La vita di un puntuale è un inferno di solitudini immeritate

Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.

of the monastic institutions on which it depended. Since celibate monks tended to

I greatly enjoyed these studies. Geshe Rabten communicated the ideas clearly and succinctly, then had us divide into pairs to pick apart in debate the details of what he had just taught. This was an excellent intellectual discipline. It made me aware of how much of my thinking was muddled. Without subjecting one's ideas to such scrutiny, it is easy and reassuring to cherish opinions that, in the end, are found to rest on the sloppiest of unexamined assumptions. This

She was being like those bratty girls in movies from the 1980s, and my mom kept saying Young Lady after every sentence.

Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic. So go crazy with the rules?the time your child spends trying to figure them out is time he won't be stapling firecrackers to the neighbor's dog.

You do the big things by doing the little things right.

Too many are trying to conquer higher weaknesses such as procrastination, impatience or pride while still being slaves to their appetites. If we can't control the body and its appetites, how can we control our tongues, or overcome the emotions or anger, envy, jealousy, or hatred?

Flaubert said — I assume about the balance between repression and freedom — "Be regular and orderly in your daily life, so you can be violent and original in your work.

Discipline is what makes an army—and civilization.

Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant 'paying off of old scores'; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances. Chickenshit is so called—instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit—because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously.

Discipline won't do it, because discipline relies on punishment, and there is no punishment the Army can inflict on a front-line soldier worse than putting him into the front line.3

discipline relies on punishment, and there is no punishment the Army can inflict on a front-line soldier worse than putting him into the front line.3

He felt that morale was "the most highly important of any military attribute." It could never be obtained through pampering the men or lowering the standards of discipline to permit easier living, but rather through self-respect, intensive training, and adequate leadership.

You cannot control others if you cannot control yourself. Those who most understand their own limitations have the fewest.

In any decent police state, they'd be a lot more efficient. In Red Spain, for example, toward the end, the discipline we had achieved was phenomenal. The Spaniards made excellent secret policemen.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.