Quotes About Discipline

The rules are the rules for a reason. Being a Shadowhunter, a good one, is about more than just training fourteen hours a day and knowing sixty-five ways of killing a man with salad tongs.

He'd probably been born with abs. Some were born with abs, some achieved abs, and some - like Simon - had abs thrust upon them by cruel instructors.

I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking, not look at a sink full of dishes after you are done. Cleaning as you go helps keep away cross contamination and you avoid having food borne bacteria.

I just don't crave junk food.

How are you this morning? You get up in time for your workout?" "Yeah. Just finished that. It was just a run... well, a run in full combat uniform including our packs, but it was only five miles so not so bad." Her eyes opened wide. "Oh, sure. That's nothing. I do at least that every morning, you know, before tea.

From the day I could talk, I was ordered to listen.

Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one's life.

Get over it,' Sherlock said, and looked at her husband. 'No, no, bad dog, keep quiet.

One French mom broke it down for me in simple terms: "Your job is not to be their friend. That does not work with children. You need to be their mom and teach them well. I would love to spend my day holding my child, but I know that is not good for him.

In France, everyone in the family has a job. The parent's role is to be the chief, and the children have the job of obeying their leader. French children are raised with this in mind, so there is much less debate and resistance.

Shaming and teasing as an alternative to loss of privileges and parental anger can serve to erode self-esteem and give rise to an overwhelming sense of humiliation when encountered later in life.

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.

At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in towers when they misbehave. It is unseemly and betrays a sad lack of creativity.

Punishment doesn't mean you aren't loved. On the contrary. You can only punish someone you love.

Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.

Being on time is a filthy habit practised only by roosters and retirees.

I didn't want to do my mathematics homework back home. Or mend the fence or mind the chickens. But I did it anyway. Just because a person doesn't want to do a thing doesn't mean they ought to shirk.

Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangers as both or either.

Accuracy is next to godliness.

Words and students, Laurel thought—they could be recalcitrant, out of order, trying to slip by without being noticed. But once you got them working together, unobtrusive and efficient, it was beautiful.

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

I had come in stages to a different belief about how one should be in this life. I now felt convinced that the greater part of a man's duty consists in abstaining from much that he is in the habit of consuming.