Quotes About Discipline

Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

I'll whip you kids into shape." "Is that legal?" I asked.

I'm going to put Gobbles in detention.

the man was Mr. Klutz, the principal of

From now on we will focus on the four Rs: reading, writing, arithmetic, and rules.

Left! Right! Left! Right!

We had to walk a million hundred miles back to class in single file. Everybody was being really quiet. Nobody wanted to get in trouble with Mr. Klutz. I looked around for Mr. Granite, but I couldn't find him.

Oh, one more thing, A.J. Clean your room. It's a pigsty.

Fooling around with marginal hands is just a tool for the players who knows how to let a hand go when he gets in trouble (which will often be the case!).

Use discipline to build character and conscience, not enemies.

Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables 'Do not try.'

Discipline is not just about punishing yourself, it's about creating habits that lead to success.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and achievement.

Discipline is the difference between a good life and a great one.

I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.

If economics were only about profit maximization, it would be just another name for business administration. It is a social discipline, and society has other means of cost accounting besides market prices.

It would be many years before I began to understand that all of life is practice: writing, driving, hiking, brushing teeth, packing lunch boxes, making beds, cooking dinner, making love, walking dogs, even sleeping. We are always practicing. Only practicing.

Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.

The writer's life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks.

Inspiration is for amateurs.

The solution is to ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.

If you were to visit a dozen talent hotbeds tomorrow, you would be struck by how much time the learners spend observing top performers.

Practice on the days that you eat.