Discipline Quotes

Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.

People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin.... Today's youth are moved by other slogans...Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Don't wait for a more convenient day to discipline your mind!

All athletes need three things: commitment, discipline and hard work. Without that it's hard to keep running.

In life... we need to find a balance. You have to set rules and limitations - that is called discipline. And you have to practice that in all your worlds.

If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

Through discipline comes freedom.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

To me success would be to be able to do your very best in everything you do.

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.

When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots.’

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates

I always say you could publish rules in a newspaper and no one would follow them. The key is consistency and discipline.

The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading.

I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline...you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.

Conservative Republicans are back. We're in the fight for fiscal discipline and limited government, and we are on the side of the American people.

Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.

FIFA stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well.

Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise

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.

The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

We should discipline ourselves to read the Word until it comes alive...until we can almost feel the breath of God.

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.

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.

The discipline of fasting releases the anointing, the favor, and the blessing of God in the life of a Christian.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.