Quotes About Discipline

Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself.

Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined grunt work. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. You might be able to fool some people, but you can never fool yourself. Your toughest critic is the one you face every morning in the mirror.

Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.

La repetición es un factor esencial, no sólo para adiestrar a los animales, sino también a los humanos.

Yoga is only a means and not the end.

Once you lose the discipline of functionality as a design guidepost, the imagination runs amok.

Don't romanticise your 'vocation'. You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle'. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

I'd decided to establish a new rule for myself: read for half an hour an evening, no matter what.

Don't romanticize your vocation. You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

It takes a lot of practice to ensure that a whole bottle of Cabernet and a pint of beer makes only a slight dent in your sobriety, but Howard felt he had reached this stage of accomplishment.

Disciplinarians thrive under chaos!

Shut off your wind, Jack! And you, too, Blaze! I didn't want you fellows to come here. But as you would come, you've got to shut up. This is my business.

Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

When you're in an academy, every day you're in at 9 A.M., and it's, 'Do this, do that,' but we just came with our football.

I think there is something to be said for not coddling people and not accepting good as good enough.

The most important thing is there is a foundation and an accountability to a system.

Going to school is cool, being accountable is cool, being responsible is cool. Those things are the cool things to do.

My parents knew if they kept me active, I'd stay out of trouble.

I think I adapted well for MMA.

People ask me what's the most important moment for me, and it's not fighting, winning or losing, it's the daily training. I'm addicted to this.

The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing.

I get very intense: I get to the show five hours early. If we're on at 8 P.M., I'm there at 3 in the afternoon.

People always say its an aggressive and bad sport and just like street fighting, but it's not the same thing. You go into work at the gym every day, and it takes away from being an aggressive person in public. You're training every day, and you're losing that aggression for the public.