Quotes About Discipline

if one doesn't find a way to do what is necessary, it's easier the next time to find a way not to act. Furthermore, if one can do the necessary and sometimes seemingly mundane things, one has it within himself or herself to persevere when it becomes necessary.

Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.

Alla scuola dei cadetti non si è mai imparato nulla su come un ufficiale debba comportarsi in un caso simile

Sometimes the district captain swung his cane slightly; it hinted at an exuberance that knows where to stop.

I must not bite him. Moon

Yes, we'll go look," he replied sternly. "But you will stay with the rest of us and not dash around like a demented snow hare!

Tigerstar seemed to care more about his training than his mentor did.

Maybe we should assess how well you can keep your mouth shut," Dustpelt snapped.

Thistleclaw practically had to sit on him to stop him.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. "Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed?" Don't you want to save some of the pizza for your brother?" Wasn't there any change?

After a few repetitions

probably because they didn't have to spend half their time acting as babysitters and disciplinarians. The OASIS software took care of that, ensuring that students remained quiet and in their seats. All the teachers had to do was teach.

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

Seems to me you fellows could stand a little less training from the FBI and a little more from the Actors Studio.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.

For this reason I consider that troops composed of boys of twenty, under experienced leadership, are the most formidable.