Quotes About Discipline

The point wasn't always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well.

All philosophy lies in two words sustain and abstain.

The power of habits is the stepping stone on the stairs of life.

When you have learned to love and control yourself, then you become the master of yourself.

A karate practitioner should possess two things : wicked hands, and Buddha's heart

Civilize The Mind, But Make Savage The Body.

The act of reading is a skill that can be cultivated.

Don't work in a restaurant if you can't control your hunger for food.

Just know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

Military service is not just a vocation. It is a way of life, an attitude that you carry in your heart even after you are discharged.

Make the difficult habitual, the habitual easy, and the easy beautiful.

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

Teach your little ones about the rules of decent behaviour. When they grow up, it will be too late to learn.

Do little but be consistent.

Control your desires as if your life depended on them, then your life will do.

If you don't make time for writing, writing won't make time for you.

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space, that you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to turn away all the peripherals.

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.

As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.