Quotes About Discipline

It's easier to hold your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold them 98 percent of the time.

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

if you want to understand what a science is, you should look in the first in­stance not at its theories or its findings, and certainly not at what its apologists say about it; you should look at what the practitioners of it do.

It seems to happen sudden—a fighter gets good. He gets easy and graceful. He learns how to save himself—no energy wasted... he slips and slides— he travels with the punch. . . . Oh, sure, I like the way you're shaping up.

Patience isn't a gift. It is learned.

A writer is someone who writes every day and is unhappy if he doesn't.

Do not skip meals if you don't feel well. Fasting is only good when you live well with discipline.

Global warming is a universal behavior of listlessness and lack of discipline.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

I still work out on a daily basis.

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

One parent is enough to spoil you but discipline takes two. I got too much of what I wanted and not enough of what I needed.

Nijinsky got all his master classes over in a single line of explanation.

The girls had to kneel all night on the parade ground waiting to see one of their number punished

inspection of kit, dress and rifle

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.

As a leader, you obtain a sense of the better soldiers during training. They have a quiet confidence about them and a swagger that sets them apart.

Be loyal to your daily practice. Keep working. And keep knocking on the door. As you'll remember, it is said in one of Rumi's most pithy moments that the door we're knocking on opens from the inside.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

If you wish to acquire recollection by practicing this holy exercise, remember to make use of a very brief means of ridding yourself of various distracting thoughts. This is that you say "No" to them when they come to you during prayer.

Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.