Quotes About Discipline

Rod Carew says he has seen many baseball players blessed with God-given ability who simply didn't want to work. "They are soon gone," Carew says. "I've seen others with no ability to speak of who stayed in the big leagues for fourteen or fifteen years… . You have to want to do the work.

Consistency separates good athletes from great ones. The best athletes win consistently because they think, act and practice consistently.

Memory, perception, coordination, strength: guitar is just plain hard.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.

If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.

Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at six better than men of fifty, which, you must admit is very wonderful. Sometimes, the Angel comes much later, because the children are naughty and won't learn their lessons or practice their scales. And sometimes, he does not come at all, because the children have a wicked heart or a bad conscience.

Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.

Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one — himself. Better to conquer yourself than others. When you've trained yourself, living in constant self-control, neither a deva nor gandhabba, nor a Mara banded with Brahmas, could turn that triumph back into defeat.

The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

We become what we consistently do.

Muchos traders están tan temerosos de perder un posible movimiento del mercado que no se atreven a dedicar tiempo a reenfocar sus planes de trading. No se dan cuenta de que un riesgo mucho mayor es perder de vista sus planes y hacer trading a tontas y a locas.

Try to change who you are and you will fight yourself all the way and then wonder, amidst the resistance, why you lack discipline. We

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

If you don't know the difference between theology and religious studies, then you're a theologian.

Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice.

Cultivate order before confusion sets in.

10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer Write. Write more. Write even more. Write even more than that. Write when you don't want to. Write when you do. Write when you have something to say. Write when you don't. Write every day. Keep writing.

when a football player steps on a field, he should do it all. I realize a great running back doesn't like to play defense, but life isn't based on what you like. If everyone did what he liked to do, we'd be in real trouble.

Taming a dog is a child's play, as to an ignorant person.

My parents were sent for and unfolded before them were my failings, itemized one by one in that catalogue-of-crime manner which comes so naturally to schoolmasters.

The army has enough regulations that even Mother Teresa was guilty of something.

The habit of creativity is more powerful than talent alone.

If you want to be great, you have to pursue your craft without quitting. You have to show up every day with the desire to get better.