Quotes About Discipline

You can't lose weight by talking about it. You have to keep your mouth shut.

I think I just ate my willpower.

Dieting is not a piece of cake.

The toughest part of a diet isn't watching what you eat. It's watching what other people eat.

Hug your kids at home, but belt them in the car.

People often say to a boy when he eats between meals: "It will spoil your dinner." But, piecing between meals never spoils your meals until after you pass forty.

Plough deep, while Sluggards sleep...

Don't do what you'll have to find an excuse for.

I consider my refusal to go to the gym today as resistance training.

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.

Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow.

A fast is better than a bad meal.

Fasting can be used for cleansing the body... It can also be used for separating oneself from the physical aspects of life to concentrate on the spiritual... It entails more than simply not eating.

Dieters live life in the fasting lane.

This is how it is when Siddhartha has a goal... His goal attracts him, because he doesn't let anything enter his soul which might oppose the goal... This is what fools call magic and of which they think it would be effected by means of the daemons. Nothing is effected by daemons, there are no daemons. Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.

Don't fling your butt beside the trail and we won't fling your butt in jail.

Keep temperate diet, use moderate exercise, observe seasonable and set hours for rest: let the end of thy first sleep raise thee from thy repose: Then hath thy body the best temper; then hath thy soul the least encumbrance; then no noise shall disturb thine ear, no object shall divert thine eye.

The Bernardo-Benedictines... get up in their first sleep, from one to three A.M., in order to read their breviary and chant matins...

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and regularity of former times, and celebrates the discipline and sobriety of the age in which his youth was passed; a happy age which is now no more to be expected, since confusion has broken in upon the world, and thrown down all the boundaries of civility and reverence.

As a matter of fact, golf is the most rigid tester of will-power in the world.

Good Habits are mentors, guardian angels, and servants that regulate your sleep, your work, your thought.

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.

But the unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to get out of than bad ones.