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Discipline Quotes
"I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge."
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"The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves."
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"The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own."
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"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion."
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"If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us."
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"Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not."
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"Overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move towards our dreams."
"Appreciate and value your time because this is the key to success."
"One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline."
"If you always want to have whatever you want any time you want it with no delays, and denial of self, you would end up ruining your life."
"You must work for grace and favor to work for you."
"You need to set a system of rewards and punishment for yourself and your team."
"You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'"
"If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it."
"The surest test of discipline is its absence."
"Turn the actions in achieving your goals into systematically repeated things and make them your routine."
"I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight."
"There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline."
"Only a changed person can live according to the law."
"Discipline is when we limit ourselves, put borders around ourselves."
"Be disciplined and effective in your relationship with God."
"Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose."
"Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy."
"Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly."
"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."
"The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven."
"Rebuke them that violates the principles of kingdom of God."
"The level of Personal Responsibility in developed countries is averagely much higher than is seen in developing nations."
"I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline."
"I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline."
"My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit."
"I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline."
"It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it."
"Never allow any of your time to be wasted on the frivolities of life."
"Think twice as much as others. Study twice as much as others. Work twice as much as others. Give twice as much as others."
"Great people become great due to the framework, routines and habits they have set for themselves."
"Without self-discipline, your streams of grace become a flood of disgrace. Never let indiscipline weigh you down for critics to pick mockeries on."
"Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents."
"Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification."
"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."
"Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention."
"Every unit of time that passes daily should be accounted for."
"You cannot desire to be great when you cannot even focus on 8 hours of work a day."
"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
"I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom."
"For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline."
"One of the strongest conviction of delayed gratification is to convince people to have faith in the truth."
"People who truly serve God embrace light, they fall in love with light, and they proclaim light, they fight with light."
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