Quotes About Discipline

There are no friends in boxing, I've said that from day one.

Meditation had never been tried before in a medical center, so we had no idea whether mainstream Americans would accept a clinic whose foundation was intensive training in meditative discipline.

Some players have no idea how to handle life without structure. That's why some players get into trouble during the offseason. This is literally the first time in our lives we've ever had free time without somebody telling us where to be and what to do.

Without boxing, there ain't no life. For me, at least.

But there's no problem to lift before the game in the morning, then play the game at night.

When someone gets angry during a training session but then does their job, there's no problem; it's fine.

I've got no problem making 125.

I have no problem in confessing that I drink alcohol but I always take it in a very limited manner.

We cannot leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people

I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle. I should fill my soul with flesh. I should fill my flesh with soul. In fact, I should reconcile at last within me the two internal antagonists.

Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

Sitting still is a pain in the ass.

The foundation of all free government and all social order must be laid in families and in the discipline of youth. Young persons must not only be furnished with knowledge, but they must be accustomed to subordination and subjected to the authority and influence of good principles. It will avail little that youths are made to understand truth and correct principles, unless they are accustomed to submit to be governed by them.

Whether you reed or rite, accustom yourselves to stand at a high desk

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

If you're independent-minded in school, you're probably going to get in trouble very early on. That's not the trait that's being preferred or cultivated.

One of the NECESSARILY ILLUSIONS for the general public is that we live in a capitalist economy, but the rich don't believe that for a minute. They insist on a powerful state to protect them from market discipline. So if Goldman Sachs makes a risky transaction, they're basically protected. If it crashes, they can run to the nanny state with their cap in hand and get bailed out.

I was fascinated by the story. I couldn't believe that anyone would be so sexually driven that he might actually skip lunch- and after an auction. I think of myself as a healthy person with a strong sex drive, but it's never occurred to me to forego meals.

I couldn't believe that anyone would be so sexually driven that he might actually skip lunch—and after an auction! I think of myself as a healthy person with a strong sex drive, but it's never occurred to me to forgo meals.

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

Every time I hear writers talk about 'the muse,' I just want to bitch-slap them. It's a job. Do your job.

It's different with a parent, isn't it? They have to consider constantly whether to say yes or no, now or later. They have to discipline and enforce as well as love and tend. You'll only have to love, and they'll soak all that up like sponges.

Kids are still up, David commented, noting the guest house was lit up like a Vegas casino. I'll have to kill them. Yes, I've noticed what a terrifying and brutal father you are. And how your children fear you. He slanted her a look. I wouldn't mind seeing the occasional tremble out of them. I think it's way too late for that. You've gone and raised two happy, well-adjusted kids

I've got a black belt in tae kwon do." When she lowered into a fighting stance, Callen could only wonder. "I took it all through college." "And I have a mighty and fatally accurate bitch slap," Jessica added.