Discipline Quotes

In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

Keeping your body in shape is a spiritual discipline. Its not just about losing a few pounds, wanting to live longer, or trying to look nicer.

Discipline is doing within, while you do without.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.

Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you.

If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program.

There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics, and the natural sciences.

Discipline is doing what you don't wanna do so you can do what you really want to do.

Discipline should amplify creativity rather than stifle it.

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

Enduring to the end is a process filling every minute of our life, every hour, every day, from sunrise to sunrise. It is accomplished through personal discipline following the commandments of God.

Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.

Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

However, lifestyle intervention requires discipline with a tangible end result that is within reach. It requires personal resolve, a lifelong commitment.

If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses . . . only through discipline may a man learn to be free.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

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.

Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

Architecture is not a profession, it is a discipline.

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.

Discipline comes from the same root word as disciple, and implies patience and teaching on our part. It should not be done in anger.

Nothing I do can't be done by a ten-year-old...with fifteen years of practice.

You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline.

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.

I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have the discipline to go to the gym.

We must continuously discipline ourselves to I remember how it felt the first moment.

I went to Harvard High because it was a great school. That it happened to be a military school was just a part of it. I gained from the discipline there.

To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.

Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.

The heart of creativity is discipline.

I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to.

Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

Training, a lot of the time, is just uncomfortable. But discipline is all about doing the thing that's uncomfortable.

Your job is to control yourself. Your job is to discipline yourself. Your job is to deal with everything in life with affection, love and kindness.

The mind quickly responds to teaching and discipline. You can make the mind give you back anything you want.

And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.