Quotes About Discipline

Now that I know I'm an Upholder, an Abstainer, a Marathoner, a Finisher, and a Lark, and have spent a lot of time thinking about what is, and isn't, important to me, I'm much better able to shape my habits.

When we change our habits, we change our lives. We can use decision making to choose the habits we want to form, we can use willpower to get the habit started; then—and this is the best part—we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. We take our hands off the wheel of decision, our foot off the gas of willpower, and rely on the cruise control of habits. That's the promise of habit.

Researchers were surprised to find," write Roy Baumeister and John Tierney in their fascinating book Willpower, "that people with strong self-control spent less time resisting desires than other people did.… people with good self-control mainly use it not for rescue in emergencies but rather to develop effective habits and routines in school and at work." In other words, habits eliminate the need for self-control.

making. A habit requires no decision from me, because I've already decided.

A habit requires no decision from me, because I've already decided.

When you're riding, it should look like a bird flying," Ray says, smiling. "Not a gut-shot bird … it should be smooth as silk. And I'll tell you what it takes to accomplish this: self-discipline. We humans only know how to put pressure on. We're good at making war, but it's a hell of a trial for us to make peace. Peace means respond and respect, not fear and escape.

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Come, let's be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.

In her enthusiasms she had always looked for something tangible: she had always loved church for its flowers, music for its romantic words, literature for its power to stir the passions and she rebelled before the mysteries of faith just as she grew ever more restive under discipline, which was antipathetic to her nature.

you must - do you hear me, young man? - you must work more than you are doing!

Spiritul acesta, pozitiv în mijlocul exalt?rilor sale, care iubise biserica pentru florile ei, muzica pentru cuvintele romanÅ£elor, literatura pentru aÅ£â??rile ei pasionale, se r?zvr?tea în faÅ£a misterelor credinÅ£ei, dup? cum se îndârjea ÅŸi mai aprig împotriva disciplinei de nesuportat pentru firea ei.

The head-master made a sign to us to sit down. Then, turning to the class-master, he said to him in a low voice—

The head-master made a

He sent him to bed in an unheated room and taught him to gulp down large amounts of rum and shout insults at church processions.

Sé ordinario y metódico en tu vida para que puedas ser violento y original en tu trabajo

Crea como un dios. Dirige como un rey. Trabaja como un esclavo.» Constantin Brancusi

Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear -- and doubt.

He maintained his new fastidiousness without interruption, added to it an unwonted sparkle of eye and crispness of speech, and began little by little to shed the corpulence which had so long deformed him.

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My sport is your sport's punishment.") Usually

If there is such a thing as sin, then it is a sin not to be able to play a musical instrument.

I don't know if I believe in talent. People keep saying to me, 'Oh he's really talented,' or this woman is an 'amazing talent.' And then when I investigate a little bit further, it turns out it's just somebody who works really, really hard.

As a soldier, you don't stand at attention because it looks nice. You stand at attention because, on some level, it either gives you strength or, just as important, makes you appear stronger to both your comrades and enemies.

There is a very fine line between relentless and stupid," Win said. "Try to stay on the right side of it.