Quotes About Discipline

abordar la mala conducta con mano blanda sólo servía para multiplicar el caos.

When you think about it, it makes sense," says Lt. Colonel William Leek, commanding officer of the Los Angeles Recruiting Station. "Recruiting and basic training are two sides of the same coin. Why have two commanders for what is essentially one process, the making of Marines?

It's the training, not the screening, that creates Marine Corps leaders of all ranks.

The training of new personnel, whether they are Marines or corporate "soldiers," simply costs too much to be thrown away on the uncommitted.

I wish my mind was a dog and I could train it to go sit.

A fool is 'happy' when his cravings are satisfied. A warrior is happy without reason. That's what makes happiness the ultimate discipline

Better never begin; once begun, better finish.

Old urges continue to arise, but urges do not matter; only actions do. A warrior is as a warrior does.

Experts devote their life to training. Masters devote their training to life.

Bakat harus dilatih, bukan hanya dilahirkan.

I'd always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed. I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live-- that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before I could awaken to a simple, happy, uncomplicated life.

urges do not matter; only actions do. A warrior is as a warrior does. At

have shown you the way of the peaceful warrior, not the way to the peaceful warrior. As long as you tread the way, you are a warrior.

First of all, said Serafim, there are no advanced skills; there is only skillful movement.

Seduction, he knew, was both science and art—a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

Belay that!" cries the first mate. "No fucking profanity. Speak when you're fucking spoken to, Crispe.

She is practicing because she knows there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.

If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would ever be in the mood to write? Do marathon runners get in the mood to run? Do teachers wake up with the urge to lecture? I don't know, but I doubt it. My guess is that it's the very act that is generative. The doing of the thing that makes possible the desire for it.

She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.

ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.

As the martial artist and actor Bruce Lee said, "I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick ten thousand times.

A series of studies by Marian Radke-Yarrow and Carolyn Zahn-Waxler at the National Institute of Mental Health showed that a large part of this difference in empathic concern had to do with how parents disciplined their children. Children, they found, were more empathic when the discipline included calling strong attention to the distress their misbehavior caused someone else: "Look how sad you've made her feel" instead of "That was naughty.

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions, by their very nature, lead to one or another impulse to act.

Podríamos decir que quienes se hallan a merced de sus impulsos –quienes carecen de autocontrol– adolecen de una deficiencia moral porque la capacidad de controlar los impulsos constituye el fundamento mismo de la voluntad y del carácter. Por