Quotes About Discipline

This escapade taught me a lesson," Nimitz later recalled, "to look with lenient and tolerant eye on first offenders when in later years they appeared before me as a Commanding Officer holding Mast."8

Leadership," said Nimitz, "consists of picking good men and helping them do their best for you. The attributes of loyalty, discipline and devotion to duty on the part of subordinates must be matched by patience, tolerance and understanding on the part of superiors.

la vida nos enseña que la mayoría de nuestros logros perdurables han sido producto del trabajo y la entrega a un proyecto que consideramos vital (criar un hijo, estudiar en la universidad, desarrollar una destreza deportiva). ¿Disciplina? No cabe duda, pero también motivación. Sentir que el cambio es necesario

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

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Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it."

I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER

Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living.

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

The artist is not born to a life of pleasure. He must not live idle; he has a hard work to perform, and one which often proves a cross to be borne.

The men were famous once. Some of them still are. They were the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and Brooks had brought them together, 24 summers before. He had picked them and provoked them and pushed them, sometimes irritating them and often infuriating them by his hardness and his aloofness, his scathing rebukes and his unrelenting mind games.

Brooks punished them in drills on the ice and gave them a 300-question test to assess their psychological makeup off it. He was relentless. If they couldn't take this small sampling of life under Brooks, they wouldn't last through one Olympic practice shift.

there are two pains in life: the pain of discipline, or the pain of regret. You choose.

Only you can keep yourself spiritually healthy by feeding yourself. No one can do it for you by proxy.

If Consequences has a back-end price, Wisdom has a front-end price. It requires discipline, obedience, consistency, and above all else, time. Then it gladly pours on you its promised tremendous riches.

The last 5 percent . . . it's something we have to discover and then be responsible for. • • Only I can be a husband/wife to my spouse. • • Only I can be a father/mother to my children. • • Only I can grow myself spiritually. • • Only I can keep myself healthy. • • Only I can keep myself disciplined.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Aristotle is reputed to have said, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit

It was something they did without thinking. They had formed meditation habits. High "self-controllers" achieved desired outcomes by streamlining, not struggling.

Self-control is simple when you understand that it involves putting yourself in the right situations to develop the right habits.

If we are in the right situation, we can achieve similar results to those who are more disciplined. Even if we don't have "it" at a young age, we can arrange our world in a way that enables our success

I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

If you continue in this vein, I'll amputate your thumbs and big toes so that you'll reel through the rest of your life like a drunken orangutan.