Quotes About Discipline

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

He summarizes his approach to change in this simple phrase (inspired by Aristotle's "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."): "We are what we practice and we're always practicing something. Thus, to make changes we need to practice something new and different.

People are tempted to tell you everything, with perfect accuracy, right up front, when they should be giving you just enough info to be useful, then a little more, then a little more.

Why are habits so important? They are, in essence, behavioral autopilot. They allow lots of good behaviors to happen without the Rider taking charge. Remember that the Rider's self-control is exhaustible, so it's a huge plus if some positive things can happen "free" on autopilot.

We cut back on expenses today to yield a better balance sheet next year. We avoid ice cream today for a better body next year.)

Focus on building habits. When you create habits, you get the new behavior "for free" (think of the stand-up meetings), and you're less likely to backslide.

Pain now for a payoff later.

Why did they quit so easily? The answer may surprise you: They ran out of self-control.

It took practice, and it took persistence.

Self-control is an exhaustible resource

Never choose something because it's easier.

Because a trained mind is your strongest ally—and an untrained one your worst enemy.

These mental lessons were the most difficult of all. I was never sure whether I mastered them or not. If I asked the bow, it would only say, frustratingly, 'There's more to learn. Because a trained mind is your strongest ally—and an untrained one your worst enemy.

diligent focus on the task at hand.

The problem with me is, anything that's easy I will just overdo it. Especially with clothes. But I'm 14 - my mom is super-strict about that.

Practice only when you really want to practice and not because everybody is meditating. When you have decided to meditate regularly, make a schedule and follow it. Constancy of aim and effort and non-laziness is the key to success and spiritual development.

Earning lots of money is good. To be wealthy is good. Wealth must preferably be in the hands of spiritually developed people with goodwill and the will to do good. But if the spiritual disciple loses his self-control, this may manifest as greed, ruthlessness, and deception. All of these must also be eliminated. Excessive, unregulated desire for money may also divert the spiritual disciple from his spiritual practice. This must be avoided.

A disciple must learn to be patient, to understand, to be tolerant, to be compassionate, to internally forgive and to bless. Although the disciple has internally forgiven the offending person(s), it is still necessary, in some instances, to take actions that may be, to a certain extent severe, in order for the person to learn his lesson and not commit the same serious mistake again. It is also necessary to protect possible future victims.

You begin to understand that warriorship is a path or a thread that runs through your entire life. It is not just a technique that you apply when you are unhappy or depressed. Warriorship is a continual journey. To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life. That is the warrior's discipline.

In meditation practice, we neither hold the mind very tightly nor let it go completely. If we try to control the mind, then its energy will rebound back on us. If we let the mind go completely, then it will become very wild and chaotic. So we let the mind go, but at the same time there is some discipline involved.

The less talented we are, the more focused we must be.

many of the top masters in their fields long ago had to learn to stop listening to themselves and instead begin talking to themselves.

The good days are when you perform; the slow days are when you learn to perform better. The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

Habits are either the best of servants or the worst of masters.