Quotes About Discipline

As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually.

Champions distinguish themselves from all others in that they are willing to sacrifice, suffer, and do everything that the nonchampions will not do.

He glanced at Flat Finn, who was positioned in one corner of the room, facing the wall. "What is Flat Finn doing? If he's urinating on the floor, you're cleaning it up." … "Is he in trouble? He has to stand in the corner and think about what he's done?

Solitude: it's become my trade. As it requires a certain discipline, it's a condition I try to perfect. And yet it plagues me, it weighs on me in spite of my knowing it so well.

Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.

There is no such thing as 'staying in shape;' you either work to get better, or you allow yourself to get worse.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

There's no better way to mess up a good cowdog than to let him discover that goofing off beats the heck out of hard work.

Work first, and then rest.

Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.

It's difficult for me to diet, so I don't. So, I make up for it in exercise. What I am willing to eat, I have to be willing to work off. It's that simple.

As footballers, we have time on our hands. Yes, we work very hard but we also have spare afternoons.

I don't really ask of myself a given word or page count or number of hours. To work every day, that's my only fetish. And there is a physical quality to it when a novel is thriving.

I work better the more I am confined and the less I am distracted. My ultimate place would be a closet.

My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.

I'm fortunate that I've been an athlete, my whole life, and I work out like a crazy person.

Do your homework, study the craft, believe in yourself, and out-work everyone.

Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.

I need a man who tells me the party's over, that it's time to go home, because [we] have to work in the morning.

I work out every day. It's part of my life. That's one of the benefits of having kids in school full-time.

You know, there are those writers who work at writing every day. I'm not one of those guys. I tend to work at varying levels of intensity, based on the amount of time and energy I have available.

I'm not too much of a wild guy. I'm all about work, I'm all about studio.

Early in my career I determined that I would not bring the problems of my work home with me. For the most part, I have been able to do that.

It's all about work when you reach up, tap in and step on that field. You don't mess around when you go through that gate.