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Quotes About Discipline

I wanted to set a new standard for competitive bodybuilding.
~ Dorian Yates
Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'
~ Patti Smith
If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
~ Irving Babbitt
Different parents have different standards for their children.
~ Penelope Spheeris
When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.
~ Curtis Stone
My parents taught me good standards, and I feel like I'm taking it to the boxing realm.
~ Joseph Parker
I've always tried to set my standards high on a daily basis.
~ Kyle Korver
My parents set high standards. It wasn't okay if you got a B.
~ Buster Posey
It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
~ Rachel Johnson
The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!
~ Ben Kingsley
I'm a professional fighter. My game plan is to fight standing up and to fight on the ground.
~ Charles Oliveira
I run a program called Amer-I-Can. We've taught in prisons, schools, juvenile facilities and we teach in the community. We have the greatest record from the standpoint of dealing with grade point averages, disciplinary action and attendance in schools.
~ Jim Brown
I really worked hard to get myself in shape, just from a physical standpoint when you're able to bring your body down and have the discipline to get into shape the way I was, it's really a spiritual journey as well.
~ Rashad Evans
I'm used to structure, and the relationship I have with my mom, from a military standpoint, is all about structure. There's a certain way of doing things. My mom knows how to focus on different situations. What I learned from her helps me out every night I play.
~ John Collins
Ricky Hatton stands out; he was known for being a good body puncher.
~ Luke Campbell
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.
~ Swami Vivekananda
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.
~ Albert Einstein
Everyone has seen people dancing all night. But take a man and make him dance for a quarter of an hour without music and see if he can bear it.
~ Maurice de Saxe
Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
~ Orson Scott Card
Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.
~ Herbert Hoover
Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.
~ John Arbuthnot
A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.
~ Socrates