Quotes About Discipline

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.

Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

Manners, boy. I'll beat them into you if I have to.

Kids and freedom are mutually exclusive.

Unfortunately, as a society, we do not teach our children that they need to tend carefully the garden of their minds . Without structure, censorship, or discipline, our thoughts run rampant on automatic. Because we have not learned how to more carefully manage what goes on inside our brains, we remain vulnerable to not only what other people think about us, but also to advertising and/or political manipulation.

mother of teenagers, blew out a frustrated breath. "I knew if I caved to the 'Oh please, can we have a puppy, Mom!' that I'd be the one to end up here," she said. "I'm not good at this. I've told him to sit a million times.

You need the discipline to say "no" to the extra clutter in your life so that you can say "yes" to the most important things with a good attitude. Not

Do you remember the hardest lesson of power?" "Knowing when not to use it?

It must be tempered with discipline. Ferocity is useless unless employed in the proper place . . .

The best way to keep yourself from doing something grossly self-destructive and stupid is to avoid the temptation to do it. For example, it is far easier to fend off inappropriate amorous desires if one runs screaming from the room every time a pretty girl comes in.

Strategy and tactics, discipline and protocol are necessary, but they're just the beginning. You have to know people, Byron. How they think, what motivates them. Watch. Learn.

You learn very quickly not to make mistakes given the correct incentive to avoid them.

You now have more work. Cease your whining, desist from your dalliances, and do your duty.

What matters is the success or failure of your will. Your will to overcome human weakness. Your will to work. To learn. I will have no shirkers here, boy.

gave me a smile so wicked that its parents should have sent it to military school.

The best way to keep yourself from doing something grossly self-destructive and stupid is to avoid the temptation to do it. For example, it is far easier to fend off inappropriate amorous desires if one runs screaming from the room every time a pretty girl comes in. Which sounds silly, I know, but the same principle applies to everything else.

myself under control.

But even the tough, capable centurions gave Marcus speculative glances, as if seeking out his thoughts on their predicament. Marcus returned the glances with nothing but crisp salutes, letting them see the First Spear proceeding with business as usual.

she was something much more dangerous than that. She was disciplined, rigidly self-restrained, and she didn't give way to either the demonic parasite that made her a monster or anyone else who would try to force her into doing something she didn't want to do.

Ah! Journeyman cackled... Finally! Carefully now, man. If you crack one of my new crystals, I'll hoist you up on a spike! Grimm cleared his throat calmly. Journeyman squinted over his shoulder. Ah, he said. That is, I will report you to... to... the proper person in the chain of command, who will make decisions about discipline that are not mine to make.