Quotes About Discipline

Well, " said her daddy, "your careless heedlessness has almost lost me my life. I am now going to give you a spanking." And he did and so dinner was a snuffling red-eyed meal filled with cold looks and long silences and the cheese souffle, which was delicious.

Regardless of your subject matter, there are ways to engage students in critical thinking about racism which are relevant to your discipline.

No one attains perfection by merely giving up work.

Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed

This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who sleeps too much, or who keeps awake.

This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts.

Yoga is difficult for the one whose mind is not subdued.

The serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought.

Even the mind of the wise man who labours for perfection is carried away by the vehement insistence of the senses, O son of Kunti. (2:60)

Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if the mind is sick, your consciousness is never sick. Even if your mind is going crazy, you are just witnessing it. Mind is only a machine. You are not.

In India, it takes a classic apprentice five years to learn how to sit at the sitar before he's allowed to play a note. It's not just the reaction that says How dare you know? It's something deeper: How dare you presume to say you know?

Let all things be done decently and in order.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth

Discipline your son, and he will give you peace; he will bring delight to your soul

Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.

Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.

There we go, that's it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.

Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It's the lack of limits they can't handle. That's when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.

If there is one thing that marks families with money over the long term it is this: delayed gratification.

When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.

One of the most common traits among successful people is getting up early in the morning. They put their personal priorities in front of other people's priorities as they know that their priority has to be done if it is to be done. This is why they don't spend the first few hours checking their email but instead use the early hours of the day as their 'me' time. Even a few minutes of visualization and positive thinking in the early hours

I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.