Quotes About Discipline

A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

Each of us should do something every day That we do not want to do But we know we should do, To strengthen our backbone And put iron in our soul.

Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.

The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice.

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

Christianity is a spiritual discipline. It posits two orders, 1.) a higher moral order (otherworldly or spiritual) associated with the soul and eternal life, and 2.) a lower material or instinctual order associated with this world and the body.

Starting on time, with everything just right, and the surgical drapes placed in exactly the right way, the instruments tidily laid out, is an important way of calming surgical stage fright.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize it, than to ccept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession, be it music, the ballet or just a basic degree. You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way

Discipline is money in the bank. A real friend, true strength.

I don't have talent, I have tenacity; I have discipline; I have focus. And I know without any illusion where I come from and what I can go back to.

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.

I don't have talent, so I just get up earlier.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Successful people MAKE themselves do the things unsuccessful people will not do.

ground the coursing of flocks run wild.

Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

The social conditions of life can only be improved by people exercising self-restraint.

There never has been and cannot be a good life without self-control. Apart from self-control no good life is imaginable.

My tongue is my enemy. Brothers

Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes—love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust.