Quotes About Discipline

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

Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet they are about denial and discipline.

Sit tight. Deviation from this maxim has usually caused me regret.

Please keep your children at your side. Unattended children will be given a shot of espresso and a puppy.

home is less a location than a discipline. It is a way of being, a domestic, considered attention to familiar routines and the small, essential details of everyday life. From now on, I promised myself, home would be wherever I was, not the place that I one day hoped it to be. I would create it by being present. I would try to do better.

Katsuki Sekida, Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy (New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1975; Boston: Shambhala, 2005).

And you over there, the one always straying from the rules…we will come for you soon. (heart) You know…you can't live here anymore, don't you? (heart)

Greatness is never achieved nor dreams realized apart from great discipline.

Maybe part of the point is this: To go on when there is no desire to go on. To practice when practice is burdensome.

That's what happens when you free people from the restraints of time. They make their own rigid schedule.

Rich and very rich people have developed the discipline of delayed gratification. Millionaires do today what others don't, so they can have tomorrow what others won't.

Lao Tzu once said, "He who conquers others is strong. He who conquers himself is mighty.

Since you have a small amount of willpower at the start of every day, the more you use it, the weaker you become. One reason why your willpower depletes is a lack of mental strength and lack of self-control. Hence, to enhance your discipline, you need to develop self-control. To do so you need to unlock your intrinsic motivation so you can exert your willpower.

I don't need to do more smart things. I just need to do fewer dumb things. I need to avoid making emotional decisions and swinging at bad pitches. I need to think!

Dad had this story. A Marine and a Navy guy walk into a bathroom together. They both take a piss, and then the sailor goes to the sink. The Marine heads for the door, and the sailor says, 'Hey—in the Navy they teach us to wash up after we take a leak.' And the Marine turns around and says, 'Yeah? Well, in the Marines they teach us not to piss on our hands.

Dad had this story. A Marine and a Navy guy walk into a bathroom together. They both take a piss, and then sailor goes to the sink. The Marine heads for the door, and the sailor says, "Hey- in the Navy they teach us to wash up after we take a leak." And the Marine turns around and says, "Yeah? Well, in the Marines they teach us not to piss on our hands.

National Service] changes guys. I saw my older cousins, older friends who'd been through it. They'd come out different men, basically. Left right left right. That drill. It's brainwashing. You can do it in your goddamn sleep. Sometimes these guys did. Their whole mind changed, and their sense of what they were, what level they inhabited. […] A lot of steam seemed to have been taken out of them.

I was very strict on that point. No devouring classmates." Jeremy rolled his eyes. "Other parents warn their kids not to talk to strangers. I had to warn mine not to eat them.

I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.

They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.

In short, we much struggle with the meaning of learning within our discipline and how best to cultivate and recognize it. For that task, we don't need routine experts who know all the right procedures but adaptive ones who can apply fundamental principles to all the situations and students they are likely to encounter, recognizing when invention is both possible and necessary and that there is no single 'best way' to teach.

His players don't sit around telling hateful-affectionate stories about him. Someone might say of him, as former Packers great Henry Jordan once said of Lombardi, "He treats us all the same—like dogs,

The hardest part about photography is getting out of bed.

Your butt may like to sit, but your butt is not the boss of you! Say no to your butt.