Quotes About Discipline

If I gave in to my nature, I'd lie in bed until afternoon, you can believe me. It's actually hypocrisy for me to get up so early.

Quién podría descifrar el enigma de la naturaleza del artista? ¿Quién puede comprender esa fusión instintiva de disciplina y desenfreno en que consiste? Porque el hecho de no querer un sedante saludable es desenfreno.

There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.

Laziness and cowardice are two of the greatest enemies of the spiritual life.

Is it any wonder that there can be no peace in a world where everything possible is done to guarantee that the youth of every nation will grow up absolutely without moral and religious discipline, and without the shadow of an interior life, or of that spirituality and charity and faith which alone can safeguard the treaties and agreements made by governments?

Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and more. Penance clears the eye of conscience and of reason.

it any wonder that there can be no peace in a world where everything possible is done to guarantee that the youth of every nation will grow up absolutely without moral and religious discipline, and without the shadow of an interior life, or of that spirituality and charity and faith which alone can safeguard the treaties and agreements made by governments?

What I eventually found out was that as soon as I started to fast and deny myself pleasures and devote time to prayer and meditation and to the various exercises that belong to the religious life, I quickly got over all my bad health, and became sound and strong and immensely happy.

People even lose their vocations because they find out that a man can spend forty or fifty or sixty years in a monastery and still have a bad temper.

Discipline is most important, and without it no serious meditation will ever be possible. But it should be one's own discipline, not a routine mechanically imposed from the outside.

Time travel, as it turns out, is not for civilian tourists, you don't just climb into a machine, you have to do it from the inside out, with your mind and body, and navigating Time is an unforgiving discipline. It requires years of pain, hard labor, and loss, and there is no redemption--of, or from, anything.

You see how many whips and things there are here. Our horses are very, very naughty.

Beneath the rubato of the day abided a stern pulse beating on, ineluctable, unforgiving, whereby whatever was evaded or put off now had to be made up for later, and at a higher level of intensity.

To keep the place running smoothly, students' behavior becomes more important than their understanding, acquiescence more valued than inquiry

Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life.

Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has taught me that in matters of the heart, such as writing, or faith, there is no right or wrong way to do it, but only the way of your life. Just paying attention will teach you what bears fruit and what doesn't. But it will be necessary to revise--to doodle, scratch out, erase, even make a mess of things--in order to make it come out right.

One of the advantages of laws is that you can follow them blind, when you have lost all your moorings. You can't follow your instincts, but you can remember your rule.

Whatever you do repeatedly," he writes, "has the power to shape you, has the power to make you over into a different person— even if you're not totally engaged' in every minute!

I was vaguely attracted to both library science and accounting, for the way that these disciplines impose order on chaos.

Bring the heat, bring the stupid. It was the Army way.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Edgar Bergen

If you want a job, and you're not as good as the next guy, then work longer than the next guy. Work faster. Be there before him–because talented people show up late, and sometimes shit needs to get done. —Kevin Costner actor

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. - Jim Ryun

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle The