Discipline Quotes

I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.

When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

It is very hard to enroll people in anything. And there is a very big difference between the words motivate and inspire. Motivation means we have an idea and we are going to carry through on that idea. We work hard at it, and we are disciplined. A highly motivated person takes an idea, goes out there, and won't let anybody interfere with them. Inspiration is exactly the opposite. If motivation is when you get hold of an idea and carry it through to its conclusion, inspiration is the reverse. An idea gets hold of you and carries you where you are intended to go.

Through discipline, and determination one can change anything and everything about him - his habits, his outlook on life

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Fasting is the first principle of medicine.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.

Someday, when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a mother, I'll tell them: I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going, with whom and what time you would get home. ... I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover your friend was a creep. I loved you enough to make you return a Milky Way with a bite out of it to a drugstore and confess, 'I stole this.' ... But most of all I loved you enough to say no when you hated me for it. That was the hardest part of all.

Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself.

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.

Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to his merit, without partiality or prejudice; hear his complaints; if well founded, redress them; if otherwise, discourage them, in order to prevent frivolous ones. Discourage vice in every shape, and impress upon the mind of every man, from the first to the lowest, the importance of the cause, and what it is they are contending for.

There are 3 rules to follow if you want to change; (1) Start immediately, (2) Do it flamboyantly, (3) No exceptions.

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

What is easy to do is also easy not to do.

I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.

In war, discipline can do more than fury.

Until you have the inner discipline that brings calmness of mind, external facilities and conditions will never bring the joy and happiness you seek. On the other hand, if you possess this inner quality, calmness of mind, a degree of stability within, even if you lack the various external factors that you would normally require to be happy, it will still be possible to live a happy and joyful life.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.

It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself.

You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You’d resist the temptation to dabble. You’d make more good decisions and you’d make more big decisions.

Discipline must be maintained.

While everyone exercises influence, the size and strength of our influence depends upon our effort. No one leads well without paying the price of discipline. As we push ourselves to grow and to learn, we enlarge our sphere of influence.

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.

One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things-in the way that if one sets out to pick up a 100-pound bag of rice, one would be advised to start with a five-pound bag, then 10 pounds, then 20 pounds, and so forth, until one builds up enough muscle to lift the 100-pound bag. It's the same way with courage. You do small courageous things that require some mental and spiritual exertion.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.

It's best to start the discipline of generosity when the amounts are small. It's easy to give ten cents out of a dollar; it's a little harder to give a hundred thousand out of a million.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

To rise at six, to dine at ten,To sup at six, to sleep at ten,Makes a man live for ten times ten.

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

Through discipline comes freedom.

Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast

When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'

Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.