Discipline Quotes

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

Shaking off restrictive chains requires action. They cannot be wished away. A declaration will never break chains. It requires commitment, self-discipline, and work.

There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

Discipline will only teach the techniques - a great teacher gives discipline, motivation and love

Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast.

Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.

Because we bring so little is no reason to bring nothing.

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.

You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.

Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learnt to discipline itself.

Living the 'easy' life today seems to make a 'difficult' life tomorrow.

Give regularly. Stewardship is not a once-a-year consideration, but a week-to-week, month-to-month commitment requiring discipline and consistency.

Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have been shown to be in error.

Hydrogeology is not a simple discipline, .. It's full of variables that are always changing.

Children need love and discipline. They need mothers and fathers. A welfare check is not a husband. The state is not a father.

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

A lot of people talk about the spirituality of Buddhism, and it is a spiritual discipline. But in Shambhala there also is a notion that you have to be synchronized with both heaven and earth.

Spiritual education is not a distinct and separate discipline; it is part and parcel of all types and levels of education, In fact, it is the very foundation on which a lasting edifice can be built.

If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.

The more you establish quiet time and mediation as part of your daily discipline, the more you go through the rotation into mirror (dream) worlds.

The whole point is to discipline the mind.

If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.

I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently.

The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

My thesis is that all disciplines find their completion in Christ and cannot be properly understood apart from Christ.

It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.

The profile of a wealthy person is this hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.

Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.

Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs.

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.

A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

We cultivate our feelings the way we cultivate a garden: we can't entirely prevent weeds from coming up, but we can take care to remove them before they do much harm.

My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser

We need patient people who are able to endure the toughest disciplines.

What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.

Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.

Men need discipline! Countries need discipline! World needs discipline! He who wants to be successful needs discipline! Be a man of discipline!

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

Without true celebration discipline is obnoxious.