Quotes About Discipline

Single-minded, determined, and intelligent organizational talent probably can create an effective army from any group of men.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

You have to watch them all the time,' she assured me darkly. 'Even if the spirit's willing, the flesh is weak!

Motivation will move you towards the top, consistency will take you to the top, but discipline is the key to keeping you there.

Sowing discord among our Men & Women over individual philosophical perceptions, religious or otherwise, will not be tolerated within my ranks. Grow up or vacate.

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

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

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

She disciplined her memory to give up counting her losses. She gave her suffering one name: exile.

Tsunami was drilling RainWings in evasive maneuvers, although apparently what that actually meant was a lot of yelling things like "Pay attention!" and "Leave that toucan alone!" and "Why are you pink? Stop being pink!" and "THREE MOONS, ARE YOU EATING AGAIN?

What did I say about staying put?

These RainWings need someone to whip them into shape,

Obedience," Queen Diamond said. "Discipline. Order. Strength. And knowing your place. These are the hallmarks of a true IceWing. Don't you ever forget it again, Arctic.

Obedience to your elders: the most important thing a young NightWing had to learn.

Keep your mouth shut and don't get in the way." "As if I would!" Fatespeaker said happily, immediately tripping Starflight with her tail.

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory, but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

organizational health is often neglected because it involves facing realities of human behavior that even the most committed executive is tempted to avoid. It requires levels of discipline and courage that only a truly extraordinary executive is willing to embrace.

From the moment he began using the disciplines on his yellow sheet, Rich was continually narrowing the scope of his responsibilities to a core set of activities. One of the areas that he most adamantly insisted on being involved in, and which had a profound connection to each of the four disciplines, was the hiring of new employees.

No amount of intellectual prowess or personal charisma can make up for an inability to identify a few simple things and stick to them over time.

DISCIPLINE FOUR: REINFORCE ORGANIZATIONAL CLARITY THROUGH HUMAN SYSTEMS.

Building a cohesive leadership team is the most critical of the four disciplines because it enables the other three. It is also the most elusive because it requires considerable interpersonal commitment from an executive team and its leader.

The event caused a certain amount of ribaldry and a fair number of sentences depriving men of their grog for playing the God-damned fool, an offense that came under Article Thirty-six 'All other crimes not capital, committed by any person or persons in the fleet, which are not mentioned in this act, or for which no punishment is hereby directed to be inflicted, shall be punished according to the laws and customs in such cases used at sea,' also known as the captain's cloak or cover-all.

the education of the young gentlemen aboard is almost all a matter of trigonometry: even of algebra, Heaven preserve us.

Jack broke off. He had seen a very great deal of drunkenness in the Navy; drunken admirals, post-captains, commanders, drunken ship's boys ten years old, and he had been trundled aboard on a wheelbarrow himself before now; but he disliked it on duty – he disliked it very much indeed, above all at such an hour in the morning.