Discipline Quotes
If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.
Discipline comes from the same root word as disciple, and implies patience and teaching on our part. It should not be done in anger.
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.
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.
Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.
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.
However, lifestyle intervention requires discipline with a tangible end result that is within reach. It requires personal resolve, a lifelong commitment.
I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.
Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.
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.
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.
If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you.
Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.
If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.
I find the training of the mind that Zen puts people through is by far to me, the most interesting, one of the most interesting disciplines.
What you keep before your eyes will affect you.
Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.
Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.
What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.
Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally.
I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.
Anybody who gets away with something will come back to get away with a little bit more.
Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
As I see it, the greatest responsibility of motherhood is to make sure that our children know that there are principles of kindness, compassion, integrity, excellence, and discipline.
In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.
Through discipline, discipline is the other side of discipleship. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to have discipline.
If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.
Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.
The one thing more difficult than following a regime is keeping from imposing it on others.
First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.
If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.