Quotes About Discipline

A lot of my friends, when I was 14 or 15, they were all up and down, wanting to go out on a Friday night, and my dad had me working really late on Fridays and Saturday mornings and even on Sunday mornings. And when I'd finished all that, we used to spend the rest of the time talking about boxing.

If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. Where X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.?

The advantage of having only one child is that you always know who did it.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.

One thousand days of lessons for discipline; ten thousand days of lessons for mastery.

The approach to combat and everyday life should be the same.

This is the substance of the way of the samurai: if by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the way. His whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.

Study hard an all things can be accomplished. Give up, and you will amount to nothing.

When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

I love getting up – in the summer, I get up at 5:30, 6 just to go train.

It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both ways.

I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.

The practice of yoga only requires us to act and to be attentive in our actions.

In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste.

Pondering over your actions is a practical way of helping yourself in the battle against sin.

Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

It's so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age.