Quotes About Discipline

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

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 get the fourth without it.

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

Most of life is routine-dull and grubby, but routine is the mountain that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either; they keep you.

Quality is not an act. It is a habit.

Character is simply habit long enough continued.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

Have a place for everything and have everything in its place.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

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

I only have to stop the puck, not beat it to death.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.

Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.

If we are willing to spend hours on end to learn to play the piano, operate a computer, or fly an airplane, it is sheer nonsense for us to imagine that we can learn the high art of getting guidance through communion with the Lord without being willing to set aside time for it.

Constant prayer quickly straightens out our thoughts.

When it becomes clear to us that prayer is a part of our daily program of work, it will also become clear to us that we must arrange our daily program in such a way that there is time also for this work, just as we set aside time for other necessary things, such as eating and dressing.

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

Before I started working here, I drank, smoked, and used bad language. Thanks to this job, I now have good reason.

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son.

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.