Quotes About Discipline

Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

He who rules his spirit has won a greater victory than the taking of a city.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

The greatest form of power is the power to control one's self not the power to control others.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

Deny Self for Self's sake

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. The height of a mans success is gauged by his self-mastery: the depth of failure by his self-abandonment. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

Self-respect takes self-control, self-control takes practice, and practice takes determination.

Don't work until you get it right. Work until you can't get it wrong.

If you don't develop a habit of waking up before the rest of the world, you won't be able to change the world.

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. Its the thing you do that makes you good.

Pursue with the right preparation. There is no great achievement that did not require preparation.

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Two things that should NEVER be wasted; Time & money.

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.

You have goals every time you play a game. Why not set goals before each practice. Make practice your own game, against yourself - and win it!

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.

My promise to my Kids: I am not your friend. I am your Mother. I will stalk you, flip out on you, lecture you, drive you insane, be your worst nightmare & hunt you down like a bloodhound when needed because I LOVE YOU! When you understand that, I will know you are a responsible adult. You will never find someone who loves, prays, cares and worries about you more than I do!

Live a life of discipline and live a life of celebration.

Discipline and commitment is pathway to reach goals and dreams.