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Discipline Quotes
"Even in extreme conditions, we should not act according to the flesh, for it lusts against the spirit."
"We should be disciplined and responsible and then our prosperity will be stable despite any economic crisis, inflation or a change of government."
"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."
"You are born to establish the kingdom of love as you subdue the earth."
"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."
"The skeleton of success is self-discipline."
"I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even."
"I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline."
"Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness."
"Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities."
"Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways."
"Godliness should promote the posture worth of exercise and fitness."
"I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble."
"It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it."
"Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before."
"If you are faithful in little things, then you will be given a bigger commitment."
"They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline."
"People should not expect to eat if they did not work."
"If you understand that a wasted time is a wasted life, you will start running away from television, you will begin to run away from movies, you will run away from games like criminal case and candy crush."
"It's like a muscle - if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don't keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it."
"I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests."
"One gains more from a fast than a feast."
"Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted."
"I have noticed that sometimes, our success, promotion and accomplishments become real when we say "no" to some things and act the right way. The potential that drives you to do that is called "self-discipline"."
"It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion."
"The first obligation for every church is to teach their members the value of hard work."
"To truly be better than your past self, you must practice the rule of ten thousand hours and you must invest so much time building yourself up."
"The standards of this new time are forcing us to put our lives in order before God."
"Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline."
"It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon."
"There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took."
"I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them."
"An army of disciplined sheep is greater than an army of undisciplined wolves."
"Only through delayed gratification could you be able to come up with other virtues, character, trait that will really qualify you to call yourself a human being."
"My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline."
"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."
"I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place."
"Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive."
"I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management."
"Discipline is when we postpone the pleasure of today for the benefit of tomorrow."
"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty."
"Always work and take productive actions."
"There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions."
"One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States."
"However, lifestyle intervention requires discipline with a tangible end result that is within reach. It requires personal resolve, a lifelong commitment."
"It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility."
"So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational."
"Without work, time cannot be converted and it will waste away."
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