Quotes About Discipline

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

Wayne W. Dyer

practice self-control.

Al controlar al ego tiendes a disolverlo. Se siente muy amenazado por su pérdida de poder. Pero tienes que perderte a ti mismo con el fin de redescubrirte. Una vez que la seguridad de espíritu te imbuye, ves cómo la disciplina mental mejora tu vida. Llega un momento en que el ego se relaja al ver que el nuevo rector de tu existencia es tan firme como una roca.

Some traders are born with an innate discipline. Most have to learn it the hard way.

Repetition. Effort. Pain. Success. There really is no shortcut.

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content, and a hundred other virtues which the idle never know.

Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics.

When they [visitors to his studio:] learn about the six-week daily-strip deadline and the 12-week Sunday-page deadline, a visitor almost never fails to remark: "Gee, you could work real hard, couldn't you, and get several months ahead and then take the time off?" Being, as I said, a slow learner, it took me until last year to realize what an odd statement that really is. You don't work all of your life to do something so you don't have to do it.

Time to paint your but white and run with antelope-in English- Stop arguing and do as your told.

After a couple of hours of intense work, I look at the paragraph I'm struggling with and know that it will be easier to finish it tomorrow. Other writers who talk about their routines usually make the same point—three or four hours a day is about the maximum that can be expected.

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick.

A cough is the basic sign of inattention. Musicians never, in my experience, cough when playing in public.

you were being strangled by the biggest, most inefficient, best entrenched bureaucratic system in the history of the world. You were in school, adrift within an education system that had lost any interest in the value of knowledge, or truth, or discipline, or self-evaluation. Like all monopolies, it was more interested in perpetuating and protecting its own territory than in anything else.

To be a serious writer requires discipline that is iron fisted. It's sitting down and doing it whether you think you have it in you or not. Everyday. Alone. Without interruption. Contrary to what most people think, there is no glamour to writing. In fact, it's heartbreak most of the time. --Harper Lee

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

It takes character to sit with all that cash and to do nothing. I didn't get top where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.

I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart.

To have lived an entire life of productivity, of self-sufficiency, having been a net giver, never a taker, never relying on others. To call oneself master, to hold oneself out as a source of expertise, to have had the courage and ability and discipline that added up to a meaningful, perhaps even noteworthy life, built over decades from nothing, and then at some point in that serious life, finding oneself searching for calories.

There is usually very little plausible reason for a show to run late. I have no patience with bands who, for no other reason than sloppiness and ego, make the paying customers wait for a show to start.

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.

Daily sitting is our bread and butter, the basic stuff of dharma. Without it we tend to be confused.