Quotes About Discipline

Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I'm master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell's own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer.

Had I a thousand daughters, by Heaven! I'd as soon have them taught the black art as their alphabet!

My hair has been in training some time.

I guess it´s safe to say that practice makes perfect. It makes sense, then, to be careful what you practice

I guess it´s safe to say that practice makes perfect. It makes sense, then, to be careful what you practice. (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, 1997)

He reasoned that, as there was nothing he could do about his feelings, he must avoid acting on them.

Every skill must be practised. Every act rehearsed. A blade is only a blade when it cuts.

Soldiers follow orders. Regardless. The moment you refuse to carry out an order, you're no longer a soldier. You're just a paid killer trying to renegotiate your contract.

That's how you fight wars, after all—with soldiers who are more afraid of stepping out of line than they are of dying on the battlefield.

By its very nature, discipline is rooted in self-admiration. (Think of discipline as a battery, useful but short-lived.) We admire ourselves for being so wonderful. The discipline itself, not the creative outflow, becomes the point.

I suddenly discovered that cooking was a rich and layered and endlessly fascinating subject. The best way to describe it is to say that I fell in love with French food- the tastes, the processes, the history, the endless variations, the rigorous discipline, the creativity, the wonderful people, the equipment, the rituals.

And I served as an officer in the army." "Very impressive. I've been told that war is boredom interspersed with violence and terror.

To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late.

I never pick up the phone unless I know who it is and I'm scheduled to talk to that person at that time.

We praised them when they were kind to others but told them not to expect to be rewarded for their good deeds. We scolded them whenever they tried to talk back. We taught them never to accept a handout. We taught them never to brag. We taught them everything we knew.

Step by small step; that was the only way I'd survive my time of penance. My lesson in patience. Or whatever it was.

Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.

Timpului nu-i dai pinteni ca unui cal.

The only way to go beyond work is through work. It is not that work itself is valuable; we surmount work by work. The real value of work lies in the strength of self-denial

We open ourselves to the divine activity which will transform us by a threefold discipline, which Augustine calls the trinity of faith: retineo (holding the truths of the Incarnation in our minds), contemplatio (contemplating them) and dilectio (delighting in them). Gradually, by cultivating a continual sense of God's presence within our minds in this way, the Trinity will be disclosed

A disorderly spirituality that makes the practitioner dreamy, eccentric, or uncontrolled is a very bad sign indeed. In

Like any skill, religion requires perseverance, hard work, and discipline. Some people will be better at it than others, some appallingly inept, and some will miss the point entirely. But those who do not apply themselves will get nowhere at all. Religious people find it hard to explain how their rituals and practices work, just as a skater may not be fully conscious of the physical laws that enable her to glide over the ice on a thin blade.

Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips. (Psalm 141:3)

LEARN HOW TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH OR I WILL KILL YOU. LOVE MOM.