Quotes About Discipline

A collection of talented individuals without personal discipline will ultimately and inevitably fail. Character triumphs over talent.

The fight is won or lost,' says Muhammad Ali, 'far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, well before I dance under the lights.

If I was going to become a great detective, I would have to learn to master my own libido.

Churches that do not discipline jeopardize the lives of those who, like Nadab and Abihu (Leviticus 10), disregard God's instructions as they approach him and risk being consumed by an outburst of his holiness (cf. 1 Cor. 11:27–32).

Unfortunately, it is more difficult to get on a city bus than it is to join most Southern Baptist churches. This circumstance makes church discipline all but impossible. History shows us that things have not always been this way.

As a father, you are patterning your discipline after your heavenly Father, whom your children need to realize you deeply respect and love.

They should stick to knitting," Napoleon had once said.

Nihil est melius quam vita diligentissima.(Nothing is better than a most diligent life.)

It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a genius. Was it his genius that drove him to work hard, or was it hard work that resulted in works of genius?

no master could be isolated from the dehumanizing effects of the rigorous discipline of the slave regime or from the disruptive intrusions of the market economy upon which that regime thrived. These central features of slavery, punishment and profit, destroyed for most slaveholders whatever remained of the elemental principle of the paternalist ethos: that masters were obliged to look to the needs of the slaves in return for the diligence and fidelity of the bondsmen.

We cannot do whatever we please and remain lawyers or yogis-and yet we could not be either unless we pleased.

While a machine greatly aids the operator in such tasks, it also disciplines its operator. As the machine might be considered the extended arms and legs of the worker, the worker might be considered an extension of the machine. All machines, and especially very complicated machines, require operators to place themselves in a provided location and to perform functions mechanically adapted to the functions of the machine. To use the machine for control is to be controlled by the machine.

The alternative attitudes toward nature can be characterized in a rough way by saying that the result of approaching nature as a hostile Other whose designs are basically inimical to our interests is the machine, while the result of learning to discipline ourselves to consist with the deepest discernable patterns of natural order is the garden.

An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather primarily a lived and historically changing set of distinctive social practices. It is in these practices that 'content' is generated, debated, and transformed via certain distinctive ways of thinking, talking, valuing, acting, and, often, writing and reading.

I simply cannot understand unpunctuality. Why should anybody be late? I know exactly how long it takes me to dress.

None arrives at the races, purchases Daily Racing Form, and within minutes begins to play.

A Horseman should know neither fear, nor anger.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don't be shown up by a baboon

You keep writing because it's the only way to finish the book.

at least ten writing sessions.

The basic idea here is that for most people will power is a limited resource: if we spend lots of energy controlling our impulses in one area, it becomes harder to control our impulses in others. Or, as the psychologist Roy Baumeister puts it, will power is like a muscle: overuse temporarily exhausts it.

When he was unexpectedly elevated to the executive director's position in 1942, Tobin quickly instilled at the Port Authority a disciplined, hierarchical, but deeply communitarian ethos designed to serve not power but a higher moral purpose.