Quotes About Discipline

Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

With a little discipline and regular self-checks, you can learn to do one thing at a time. And do it better. And be happier doing it.

It's good to play, and you must keep in practice.

Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.

I believe that the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows that plan carries thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

MOTHER TO TEENAGER ON SUNDAY MORNING: I believe I heard the clock strike one when you came in last night. teen: Well, I know how much you need your sleep, so it was going to strike ten but I stopped it at one chime.

There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.

You know what you do when you shit, singing is the same thing, only up!

Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune.

Now landsmen all, whoever you may be, If you want to rise to the top of the tree. If your soul isn't fettered to an office stool, Be careful to be guided by this golden rule - Stick close to your desks and never go to to sea, And you may all be Rulers of the Queen's Navee.

The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.

I work every day-or at least I force myself into my office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the fourth without it.

Character is built into the spiritual fabric of personality hour by hour, day by day, year by year in much the same deliberate way that physical health is built into the body.

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Let they child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. ... If the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

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

No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.

Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends.

Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.