Discipline Quotes

I think that self-discipline has to be accompanied by passion.

I think passion and discipline are wonderful, complementary things.

I think passion gives you the energy to do what is right, and discipline makes sure you do what is right. So I look at them as kind of cousins maybe.

You always have to be available for people, and you have to be clearly stating what you want to see, in so many disciplines, all at the same time.

Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.

The purpose of discipline is not to punish, but to correct.

You cannot antagonize and be a positive influence, and you will antagonize when you discipline through emotion.

Discipline yourself - so others don't have to.

Discipline yourself so others won't have to.

Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.

Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.

To be honest, my social life is my work. It's quite boring to say, but I meet a lot of people, and we have people from different creative disciplines. I enjoy life right now, and I enjoy work.

There is no real joy that does not involve self-denial and self-discipline

Gratitude is a discipline, not an emotion.

I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

I've never minded being disciplined. I'd always rather have a quiet evening in than go to a wild party. Discipline for me has always been the foundation which leaves me free to fly.

Nobody would ever think, "Oh, get into acting so you can live the straight and narrow path," but it gave me a sense of discipline and focus.

The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.

It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to realize something I always knew was simmering underneath.

I don't have a lot of discipline.

[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there?

Discipline is not only very important, it's crucial.

Super fidelity requires constant investment and discipline, but great companies know how to do that.

I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.

If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be.

Galen recognized, with some considerable puzzlement it seems, that Christians exhibited the virtues that he associated with the discipline of philosophy.

I've done a little yoga, not as a professional, and every time I have a good teacher I see the immense possibilities and subtleties in this discipline. It's a little bit like music.

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal.

It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.

Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do.

There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye.

So, I'm not on a diet. I'm on a journey with Jesus to learn the fine art of self-discipline for the purpose of holiness.

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.

The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.

A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline.

Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.

Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

You can't take a vacation from speed. I probably could have taken more time off and not driven in all the different disciplines, but I wanted to drive, drive and drive.

Growth in any individual European country has to be the result of policies for growth pursued in that country consistent with budgetary discipline.

If Livingstone don't keep their discipline the inevitable could happen.