Quotes About Discipline

Idleness is the mother of vice.

So runs the genealogy of many another sin: idleness is usually the grandfather of the crime, whatever the father might be.

Your body is a temple, not a drive-thru.

If you don't get enough time-outs as a child, you get them as a grownup.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been. When work has disciplined a man, he may safely be left to himself...

He that in his studies wholly applies himself to labor and exercise, and neglects meditation, loses his time; and he that only applies himself to meditation, and neglects labor and exercise, only wanders and loses himself.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues.

Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.

But the truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

I'm addicted to this exercise — I never skip a day!

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

Graham committed himself to an hour of prayer and Bible study each day after breakfast. He began with five chapters of Psalms, he claimed, to know how to get along with God, and one chapter of Proverbs to know how to get along with other people. That way he read each book through once a month.

Either dance well or quit the ballroom.

Then you have to be nothing. Want nothing. You can't have them-Kat or Annabel-if you need them. You're not a husband. You're not a father. You're a man with a task. Understand?

Part of being a Jedi is setting an example." -Corran Horn to Anakin Solo

Real spiritual growth comes only through discipline and perseverance. In other words, it comes through sticking with it. One of the traps for all of us, however, is substituting activity for genuine fellowship with God. I

By reading twenty-five to thirty chapters a week, an appetite for the Word of God is created.

Scripture memorization has a number of benefits. We become what we place our minds on.

The problem in our culture . . . isn't the abortionists. It isn't the pornographers or drug dealers or criminals. It is the undisciplined, undiscipled, disobedient, and Biblically ignorant Church of Jesus Christ."[7]

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.