Quotes About Discipline

In boxing, you have to be disciplined. You have to train hard, eat well, and get plenty of rest. If you don't do those things, you won't be successful.

Some teachers genuinely seem to believe that the politically correct nonsense that the kids should not be punished. Others are simpleminded and have allowed themselves to be brainwashed until they believe this.Most,I suspect, are simply worn down by years watching standards slide while being told there was they could,or should, do about it.

PE teachers are usually very good with the kids because they don't muck about.

Far too many incidents are simply brushed under the carpet, as it is much easier to hold meetings and presentations than support those teachers below them who are trying to improve discipline.

Habits are safer than rules you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

The "secret" to success has always been the same: education and hard work.

it is self-denial and abstinence that maim and deform the soul.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

once we get it, we lose it and start looking for it all over again. That's why it's called a practice. You never master it.

I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head.

In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counselor, a dress-code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, a priest, a mother-father-brother-sister-uncle-aunt, a bookeeper, a critic, a psychologist, the last straw.

The buying of a whole bottle does not require that you drink the whole bottle. Mother's Rule of eating everything on your plate does not apply to alcohol.

Consequently, adoption is not a word of relationship but of position. You as a Christian are a child of God by new birth. But adoption is God's act in which you are placed in the position of an adult son (Gal. 4:1–5). Greek, Roman, and Jewish families adopted their own children. Birth made them children, but discipline and training brought them into adoption and the full stature of sonship.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

When we see a disciplined society, there is often a social hierarchy behind it. This hierarchy, which determines who can eat or mate first, is ultimately rooted in violence.

His reaction looked very much like anger, with threatening gestures, raised voice, and a purple face. But his anger was triggered by apprehension and was mixed with hope that some good discipline might keep me from being so stupid again. It sure did! My point here is that every display of emotion needs to be judged in a wider context. A single label rarely suffices. To call my father's state "angry" fails to do it justice without also mentioning love and worry.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Umar puts his awareness of the restlessness for more and more knowledge that possesses true scholars, in these words: "Scholars are more prone to sleeplessness and slower to have enough to eat than any guests.

Riddle: Early to bed and early to rise does what?

Later on, he brought that same sense of hard work and inner discipline to his work. Whether he was working on a script for the Neighborhood programs or on a speech, he fretted over the words, attempting to make the content meaningful. I can remember his saying over and over again, as he worked at the fourth or fifth draft of whatever he happened to be writing, "Simple is better.

As a science, I should say that chart reading shares a pedestal with astrology; but most chart readers are educated men and have too much mental discipline to take astrology seriously.

The Punisher: If there are no consequences to your mistakes...you have no reason...not to make them...

Ita fit ut ratio praesit, appetitus obtemperet.

Our goal is to learn how to resist temptation, but desperate attempts at iron willpower can produce frustration and disappointment. What's needed is watchfulness—in Greek, nepsis. Since temptation begins with a thought, we need to start noticing the thoughts that appear in our minds, that weave around and through, seeking a weak spot. The idea is to notice them early, and shut them off. Block them before they get stronger and harder to resist.