Quotes About Discipline

Little Octobrists are future Young Pioneers. Little Octobrists are studious kids. They study hard, love school, and respect their elders. Little Octobrists are honest and truthful kids. Little Octobrists are fun-loving kids. They read and they draw, they play and they sing, and they stick together. Only those who work hard and persist earn the right to be called Little Octobrist.2

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The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.

Never believe a promise from a man or woman who has no discipline. They have broken a thousand promises to themselves, and they break their promise for you.

If you give your body a choice, it will always take the easy way out. Your body lies. It tells you it cannot when it can.

Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.

I'm not an alcoholic—I don't have the discipline to become one—

I'm not an alcoholic—I don't have the discipline to become one—but

Self-actualization, for a man, is self-mastery, the strength to govern his appetites and passions and not be governed by them.

Demanding immediate results is an aspect of unsteadiness of mind or laziness.

Her kung fu is that powerful.

Dr. Everest, got up and gave us a little pep talk. Mostly it boiled down to the fact that it was autumn, and everyone was back, and while that was a great thing, people better not get cocky or misbehave or he'd personally kill us all. He didn't actually say those words, but that was the subtext.

He had to choke the knowledge. He had to kill the vision. He had to obey and draw the lines as instructed.

When Helen's father compliments Annie on the fact that she has taught Helen the rudiments of discipline, Annie, discouraged, answers: ". . . to do nothing but obey is—no gift, obedience without understanding is a—blindness, too.

She liked his face—its lines were tight and firm, it did not have that look of loose muscles evading the responsibility of a shape, which she had learned to expect in people's faces.

Escribía que la arquitectura era verdaderamente la mayor de todas las artes, porque era anónima como toda grandeza. Decía que, tal como debía ser, el mundo tenía muchos edificios famosos, pero pocos arquitectos renombrados, puesto que en realidad ningún hombre individual había creado nunca nada de importancia, en arquitectura ni en cualquier otra disciplina.

I think perhaps education doesn't do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.

Five days a week, she came into my room at four in the morning, force-fed me breakfast, and proceeded to teach me my English lessons for three hours before I left for school and she went to work.

Setiap strategi untuk mengurangi kemiskinan antargenerasi harus dipusatkan pada pekerjaan, bukan pada kesejahteraan--bukan hanya karena pekerjaan itu memberikan kebebasan dan pendapatan, melainkan juga karena pekerjaan itu mendatangkan kedisiplinan, struktur, harga diri, dan kesempatan untuk berkembang dalam kehidupan masyarakat.

But what McConnell lacked in charisma or interest in policy he more than made up for in discipline, shrewdness, and shamelessness—all of which he employed in the single-minded and dispassionate pursuit of power.

I think we're people that needed boundaries.

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

Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around.

Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.