Quotes About Discipline

I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations, but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly, to try to understand things.

When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.

You say to your soldier, 'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American, 'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it.

All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain.

One of man's finest qualities is described by the simple word "guts"-the ability to take it. If you have the discipline to stand fast when your body wants to run, if you can control your temper and remain cheerful in the face of monotony or disappointments, you have "guts" in the soldiering sense.

Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.

A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.

The manager with the in-basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.

Character is perfectly educated will.

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he doesn't wash his hands, he is called dirty; if he does, he is wasting the water.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak.

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Beat your child once a day. If you don't know why, he does.

Perform without fail what you resolve.

Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.

You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.

If you don't concentrate, you'll end up on your rear.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.