Quotes About Discipline

He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm—to forget to plant in the spring, play all summer and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? The farm is a natural system. The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.

The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do," he observed. "They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.

President N. Eldon Tanner has said, "Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you don't want to do it.

Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits.

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

But knowing I need to listen and knowing how to listen is not enough. Unless I want to listen, unless I have the desire, it won't be a habit in my life. Creating a habit requires work in all three dimensions.

True discipline means channeling our best hours into first-order objectives, and that means being a nonconformist in the best sense.

The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do

It builds weakness in the person forced to acquiesce, stunting the development of independent reasoning, growth, and internal discipline. And finally, it builds weakness in the relationship. Fear replaces cooperation, and both people involved become more arbitrary and defensive.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ARISTOTLE

To not say the unkind or critical thing, particularly when provoked and/or fatigued, is a supreme kind of self-mastery.

there are times to teach and times not to teach.

The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do," he observed. "They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose." That

The price must be paid and the process followed.

Suppose you want your daughter to have a clean room—that's P, production, the golden egg. And suppose you want her to clean it—that's PC, production capability.

It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

We are what we repeatedly do.

Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to

Highly effective people do not really manage time—they manage themselves.

It is the love and the discipline of the one student, the one child, that communicates love for the others. It's how you treat the one that reveals how you regard the ninety-nine, because everyone is ultimately a one.

Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it every day and soon it cannot be broken.

we will define a habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.

if you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities; or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them, to stay with your priorities and organization?