Quotes About Discipline

Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming.

The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.

If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.

Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.

As a martial artist you have to be truthful about yourself so you can approach your training properly and get better.

Truthfully, what we do in training is 10 times harder than what we ever have to do in a competition.

It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.

What I try to do is improve as much as I can so I can be the best bowler I possibly can.

I try to keep things as simple as possible: my job as a javelin thrower is to stay in good shape and do my best at each competition.

I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music.

As a defender I try to keep clean sheets.

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.

I'm just trying to be the best basketball player I can be, you know, move the ball.