Quotes About Discipline

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline

I became a tabla-player at the the age of five. However, I should have learned singing also. I mean I know about singing, but I have been never practicing it.

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.

I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.

From the age of seven, I basically started practicing my hand-eye and foot coordination, balance, strength, endurance, discipline, and mental toughness three days a week until I was about 15.

When you bat, you need to have a lot of patience. I started training for it from the age of eight or nine. So, I knew what I needed when I stepped on the field to bat.

We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Work alone is noble.

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.

There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

A man who is willing to undertake the discipline and the difficulty of mending his own ways is worth more to the conservation movement than a hundred who are insisting merely that the government and the industries mend their ways.

That the discipline of agriculture should have been so divorced from other disciplines has its immediate cause in the compartmental structure of the universities, in which complementary, mutually sustaining and enriching disciplines are divided, according to "professions," into fragmented, one-eyed specialties.

wanting good government in their states, they first established order in their own families; wanting order in the home, they first disciplined themselves . .

I am indebted to my dear parents (both now in heaven) for having had habits of order and regularity instilled into me at a very early age.

But, as to Mr. Franklin's bedroom (if THAT is to be put back to what it was before), I want to know who is responsible for keeping it in a perpetual state of litter, no matter how often it may be set right--his trousers here, his towel there, and his French novels everywhere. I say, who is responsible for untidying the tidiness of Mr. Franklin's room, him or me?

The principle of democracy is freedom, the principle of war is discipline; each requires the absence of the other.