Quotes About Discipline

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not these fifty things I dabble in.

When one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.

Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

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 disappointment, you have "guts" in the soldiering sense.

He only may chastise who loves.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.

Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor, goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch, is no ethical leader for me.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses, though he be not drunk.

It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

I exercise self-control and never touch any beverage stronger than gin before breakfast.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.

My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.