Quotes About Discipline

It's a disgusting habit, and it causes weak men to make strong excuses.

I'm on the whatever-gets-this-book-that-I'm-working-on-written track. I have really done it a lot of different ways, to be honest. I'm a full-time Dad, I've been a full-time teacher for some 20 years. Good Girls is book number seven. One of the things that has made it possible for me is I get up every day and I find a way to fit some writing in, no matter what.

It seems after so many years of chasing my childhood sweetheart I have found her hiding in the eyes of that girl behind the bike shed. I have expected for years that medicine should leak into my poetry but never dreamed that poetry might leak into my medicine in such a way. On my best days there is no separation at all between both disciplines. I feel as though I have discovered a late love and, like all of those who have, it is all the more sweet for taking so long to wander by.

British philosopher Jeremy Bentham's eighteenth-century conception of the Panopticon, a building design he believed would allow institutions to effectively control human behavior.

gradually understood that I wasn't practicing to play the guitar, but playing the guitar to learn about practicing.

In consistency lies the power

if you stick with the Word and keep growing, your flesh can develop the habit of righteousness just like it developed the habit of unrighteousness. Don't starve your spirit

My mom was definitely very strict with me.

The Bible has a promise for us when we discipline ourselves: "No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it" (Heb. 12:11).

You can either choose the pain of discipline now, or the pain of regret later. Regret lasts longer.

If decision making taxes our self-regulation, then an easy response is to minimize decisions before tackling something we've been procrastinating.

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart

Believe in yourselves as sons and daughters of God, men and women with unlimited potential to do good in the world. Believe in personal virtue. There is no substitute for it anywhere under the. heavens. Believe in your power to discipline yourselves against the evils which could destroy you. Believe in one another as the greatest generation ever yet to live upon the earth.

but a man did not acquire so much gold brocade without learning to swallow his own desire

We can't maintain the pace unless we pray, study Scripture, and read heavy doses of the classical spiritual literature.

The Roman philosopher Cicero said of the discipline of reading: No other pleasure suits every occasion, every age or every place. But the study of letters is the food of youth, the delight of old age, a delight at home and no burden abroad; it stays with us at night, and goes with us on our travels, near and far.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I'm tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It's hilarious. So we decided that I'm going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

But I love women chefs: they are intelligent, they are fast learners, and they can be tough. As for the effect the have on the boys, its entirely positive. Put a woman in a kitchen and discipline will improve, if anything: the guys have being told off in front of the girls. It's a playground thing - they just find it embarrassing.

I will not make a scrapbasket of my mind.

When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won't dig them out of the garbage later. Be careful, though, because that Raid really doesn't taste that bad.

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.

The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good, spit it out.