Quotes About Discipline

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

Never believe a promise from a man or woman who has no discipline. They have broken a thousand promises to themselves, and they break their promise for you.

You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

If a general shows confidence in his men but always insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be mutual.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.

Sir, if you ask a Marine if he wants another cigarette, or if he's ready, the answer is always the same, sir!

His rule of thumb, after a walk, is to drink water until he begins to urinate again. Then he can consider other activities.

Is this some exercise in keeping a straight face?

Edzard screamed at the men on the starboard side, threatening to throw them overboard if they didn't match the pace of the port team.

He has a kind of exaggerated politeness that is kind of like a military man.

Your diligence is setting an example for all of us—stop it!

Problem is not aggression. It is lack of discipline. A person can be aggressive and still be constructive in society if she controls her passions.

World class cereal eating is a dance of fine compromises.

He has found that he works best when he is not horny, which is to say in the day or so following ejaculation.

What were you tring to do, soldier? I was trying to eat, sir! And what happened? I got caught thinking about some crap, sir! What kind of crap? How I want to live less than my parent's dog.

Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.

As the saying goes, we spend the first years of children's lives teaching them to talk and walk, and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.

Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!

I want to learn martial arts, he said docilely, so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it.