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Quotes About Discipline

I've always worked. I have always been too responsible. But I don't know how to live any other way. I think that this discipline was also demanded of me by my work.
~ Giorgio Armani
This is exactly how I would describe my work: 'I get there, I put on the clothes, I leave it on the hanger, and I go home.' And that's what I do.
~ Gisele Bundchen
As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
Never drink if you've got any work to do. Never.
~ H. L. Mencken
I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.
~ Halle Berry
I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what I'm writing. I don't see anything else, I don't think about anything else.
~ Haruki Murakami
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.
~ Henry Rollins
My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age.
~ Herschel Walker
If you want learning, you must work for it.
~ J. G. Holland
I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness to do work.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
I'm a believer in routine. I like to see people work out at the same time each day.
~ Jack LaLanne
Modeling gave me a strong discipline of professionalism where you work very long hours.
~ Jaime King
A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.
~ James Agate
The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.
~ James Nesbitt
Part of the discipline of being an editor is that you have to be a good audience member; your work is to be a surrogate audience member on the films you are working on.
~ Unknown
Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
~ Jeanette Winterson
When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Now I have to do a lot more work. I have to train more and do a lot more, you know, work on my body and take care of the little things in order to feel great for my body to be in good shape.
~ Jelena Jankovic
I just try work out at least twice a week if I can.
~ Jennifer Garner
You can't be afraid of hard work or long hours. Sacrifice is important.
~ Jerry Bruckheimer
The freedom I experienced as a dance major in college gave me so much, but the reality of being in school is that you are still forced to work under restrictions.
~ Jillian Hervey
It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.
~ Jo Brand
I work every day. Sometimes I don't accomplish anything every day, but if I don't work every day, I get depressed and get afraid to start again. So I do something every day.
~ Joan Didion
Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe