Quotes About Discipline

The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules - but to win. And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline.

This is a football.

A spiritually productive person understands and persists in the biblical truths that he learns from Scripture.

Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly. (2 Timothy 2:16)

Theology is the systematic study and expression of the teachings of Scripture. It defines and interprets all that a person thinks and does. It ranks above all other necessities (Luke 10:42); no other task or discipline approaches it in significance. Therefore, the study of theology is the most important human activity.

Christians do not need more emotions; they need more self-control.

Give me the discipline to get rid of the stuff that's not important, the freedom to savor the stuff that gives me joy, and the patience not to worry about the stuff that's messy but not hurting anybody.

To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

I think that men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from boyhood the steps of these studies and thus, nursed by the knowledge of many arts and sciences, having reached the heights of the holy ground of architecture.

It is practice first and knowledge afterwards.

A Yogi must avoid the two extremes of luxury and austerity. He must not fast, or torture his flesh. For, says the Gita, "He who fasts and he who eats too much, he who keeps awake and he who sleeps much, he who works too much and he who does no work, none of these can be Yogis.

My mother was kind," she said. "She had a kind heart. Your mother? She was organized. My mother would sit up with her own kids when they were sick, and she'd sit up with you, too. Your mother would march into the kitchen like a top sergeant and say to my mother, 'Levinson, stop crying, put on a brassiere, fix yourself up.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Everyone must hoe his plot daily…

Regimen is superior to medicine.

What's wrong with that? You're getting exercise in your sleep. We're up to five sets of fifty push-ups, three hundred sit-ups, and a run every night.

Children should neither be seen nor heard from – ever again.

Unless man learns to control the sinner, the animal in himself, he can never release his full accomplishment.

The surest way to discipline passion is to discipline time: decide what you want or ought to do during the day, then always do it at exactly the same moment every day, and passion will give you no trouble.

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition

The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked… it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.