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Quotes About Discipline

You've got five minutes to get your ass up and in the shower, or the shower's coming to you.
~ Sylvia Day
My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.
~ Sylvia Plath
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to turn away all the peripherals.
~ Sylvia Plath
I don't know what's the trouble with children these days. They seem to get worse and worse.
~ Sylvia Plath
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to burn away all the peripherals
~ Sylvia Plath
Lo único que hacía era estudiar demasiado, y nunca sabía cuándo debía detenerme.
~ Sylvia Plath
And heart's frosty discipline Exact as a snowflake. But here–a burgeoning Unruly enough to pitch her five queenly wits Into vulgar motley– A treason not to be borne. Let idiots Reel giddy in bedlam spring: She withdrew neatly. And round her house she set Such a barricade of barb and check Against mutinous weather As no mere insurgent man could hope to break With curse, fist, threat Or love, either. – Spinster
~ Sylvia Plath
Every day, writing. No matter how bad. Something will come. I have been spoiled to think it will come too soon: without work & sweat. Well, now for 40 days I work & sweat.
~ Sylvia Plath
either you control money, or it will control you. To control money, you must manage it.
~ T. Harv Eker
I liken a life without daily spiritual practice to a house built on sand.
~ T. Thorn Coyle
A life that includes daily spiritual practice is a house built on a strong foundation.
~ T. Thorn Coyle
we often avoid daily practice not out of laziness, or lack of discipline, but because we know that profound changes will occur in our lives and we are not sure we are up to shouldering what feels like the burden of the unknown. Something inside of us fears the loss of normalcy and the familiar.
~ T. Thorn Coyle
It's not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
~ T.S. Eliot
I always feel it's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
~ T.S. Eliot
Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.
~ Tahir Shah
door, or I'll kick it in. I mean it. And guess whose allowance will pay for the repairs?" She could hear him stirring then, muttering curse words. "No swearing!" she snapped. "You do it!" "Not when I think you can
~ Tami Hoag
handcuffs, no pistol-whipping . . .
~ Tami Hoag
I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get killed on your own time.
~ Tamora Pierce
Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.
~ Tamora Pierce
Hello, he greeted her cheerfully. You must be Alan of Trebond. You're very hardy to have made it this far the first day. Has anyone said what we try to learn in here? Alanna said the first thing that came to her lips. The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time.
~ Tamora Pierce
When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow.
~ Tamora Pierce
The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time.
~ Tamora Pierce
Don't make me regret taking you on. If I get irritated, I might drown you a little bit.
~ Tamora Pierce
A knight must develop all his abilities, to the fullest.
~ Tamora Pierce