Quotes About Discipline

I cannot repeat too often that to control the child one must often control oneself.

As she put it, she knew of nothing so ravishing as having a child whom she could whip whenever she was in a bad mood. (The Queen Fantasque)

No sabía emplear con ellos más que tres medios inútiles siempre y frecuentemente perniciosos con los niños: el sentimiento, los razonamientos y el enojo.

Cakes have gotten a bad rap. People equate virtue with turning down dessert. There is always a person at the table...No, really, I couldn't...Everyone who is pressing a fork into that first tender layer looks at the person who declined the plate, and they all think, That person is better than I am. That person has discipline. But that isn't a person with discipline, that is a person who has completely lost touch with joy.

Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

I've told you before, life's not about doing what you want.

Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. Fussing over children who cry only encourages them, she told us. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit.

Condition comes from hard work during practice and proper mental and moral conduct between practices.

I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity

I don't work with a trainer. I just go to cheerleading practice and run a couple times a week.

Everybody shut up. Let us work.

Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.

For 40 years, I put my body through a tremendous amount of work.

A lot of hard work has to go into your career, and preparation, and being your best at all times.

I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it.

I train a lot of people on the side as a personal trainer, but I still work out myself to keep in great shape.

Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.

Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.

Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.

I was 160lbs when I started and I went up to 195lbs. There were no steroids. But it was hard work, dedication, hitting the gym. You kind of see it.

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision.