Quotes About Discipline

Dad told me to stop running in circles, I couldn't, so he nailed down my other foot!

Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.

I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.

I took Jujitsu for four years, which has no striking. My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.

My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.

I got a little bit of the Marine mentality from my dad, I guess. You can't but help absorb the culture you're around.

My dad taught me not to overplay, to think about my parts when I play, even in a live situation.

My daddy was the type that if you asked him, "Dad, am I going to get off punishment soon?" - he would extend it. It was like jail.

After a golfer has been out on the circuit for a while he learns how to handle his dating so that it doesn't interfere with his golf. The first rule usually is no woman-chasing after Wednesday.

Blessed are those who, in the face of death, think only about the front sight.

A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.

The way of the Samurai is found in death.

and said that he still had his evening's reading. He did not do justice to a writer unless he read him on consecutive days and for no less than three hours at a sitting. Otherwise, despite his notetaking and underlining, he lost touch with a book's inner life and might as well not have begun. Sometimes, when he unavoidably had to miss a day, he would go back and begin all over again, rather than be nagged by his sense that he was wronging a serious author.

Nothing illegal is achieved without patience.' Benjamin Franklin.

I'm talking to a virtually inhumanly disciplined, rational person who has lost all sense of proportion and entered into a desperate story of unreasonable wishes. Yet that is what it is to be in life, isn't it? What it is to forge a life. You know your reason can reassert itself at any time - and if it does, there goes life and the instability that is life.

Some cooks prepare their meals and leave a big mess for later, but the way of zen is to clean as you go.

forgiveness must be taught and practiced, as one would practice any difficult craft.

He resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit

Mother went back inside when the police had gone, but Dad did not. Instead he walked to the edge of the porch, cupped his hands over his mouth, and bellowed like a bull moose. "Wallace, Joshua, and Joseph! Get in here! Now !" "You want to spend the night in the woods?" Wally whispered to his brothers. "He'd just come looking for us," said Josh.

Il ne faut pas désespérer les imbéciles, avec un peu d'entraînement on peut en faire des militaires.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Are not they temperate from a kind of intemperance?