Quotes About Discipline

To be a good soldier a man must have discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and in his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to his comrades and to his superiors, and self-confidence bom of demonstrated ability.

Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger, the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.

From the outside, this runner's world looks unnatural. The body punished, the appetites denied, the satisfactions delayed, the motivations that drive most men ignored. The truth is that the runner is not made for the things and people and institutions that surround him. To use Aldous Huxley's expression, his small guts and feeble muscles do not permit him to eat or fight his way through the ordinary rough-and-tumble. That

The athlete doesn't stop smoking and start training. He starts training and finds he has stopped smoking.

One thing we runners know. There is no substitute for running. No matter what age we are. No matter what time we do it.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

There ought to be limits to freedom.

Nothing is more harmful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army superiority over another.

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

Nowadays the seminaries turn out little choirboys, little ragamuffins who think they're working harder than anybody because they never get anything done.

Military justice is to justice as military music is to music.

It's the four Ds, Corvus. Dress. Discipline. And dealing death.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.

I don't want him drooling all over the place like a sex-starved spaniel.

To say that you will exert your best efforts is little more than to say you will try. But you must begin to understand that — for you, forward of this moment — you do not have the luxury of merely trying at anything you undertake, and failure is not an option." "But

The active night of the spirit is characterized by similar disciplines and restraints applied to the intellect, memory, will, and imagination. John's primary example here is of practicing the virtues. He says that the three theological virtues (faith, hope, and love) are instrumental in freeing the spirit from its attachments. Faith darkens and empties the intellect, hope frees the memory, and love liberates the will.

I didn't fight the desire to drink anymore; I just did not drink.

Try fasting. "Intermittent fasting" is defined in medicine as taking only water for 16 hours, coupled with eating normally for 8 hours (or other schedules such as 18 and 6, 20 and 4, 22 and 2, etc.). For example, you could simply not eat after eight p.m., then skip breakfast the next day, followed by eating a normal lunch and dinner.

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

The smaller the drink, the clearer the head.

Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.