Quotes About Discipline

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thine own.

No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training… what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.

with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.

discipline is to do what is appropriate or just; that is, in an excessively complicated age, to simplify our lives.

Learn to obey before you command.

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.

I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.

The singularity of the term "psychology" should not mislead one into thinking that such a discipline was ever successfully founded. Or that there is an essence to "psychology" that could encompass the various definitions, methodologies, practices, world-views, and institutions that have used this designation.

Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.

Discipline is the great equalizer. If a young woman is beautiful but has no discipline, she will lose her looks as she grows older. If a plain woman is disciplined she will undoubtedly become more beautiful with time.

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do

Bada a quel che dici, e qalunque cosa tu dica, mettila in pratica.

Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.

Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

Just know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.

Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.

Speaking the Lord's name with reverence must simply be part of our lives as members of the Church... we do not use foul language. We do not curse or defame. We do not use the Lord's name in vain. It is not difficult to become perfect in avoiding a swearing habit, for if one locks his mouth against all words of cursing,... he is en route to perfection in that matter.

We would all be well advised to avoid the motivation to the evil thought. If persistently resisted it will "get the message" and stay away.

Develop discipline of self so that...you do not have to decide and re-decide what you will do when you are confronted with the same temptation time and time again. You need only decide some things once.