Discipline Quotes · Page 75

“Beating children will not make them wise. They will grow wilder and wilder and the cane will feel like paper on their…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.

— John Bradshaw

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

— Samora Machel

It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

— Junot Diaz

Life is a unique combination of "want to" and "how to" and we need to give equal attention to both.

— Jim Rohn

I survive. I survived it all then and I'll survive the rest of it. Without your help.

— Janet Morris

“You must discipline yourself consistently to do what others do occasionally in order to have the future few will get to experience.”

— Mensah Oteh

MMA embodies a lot of disciplines of sports with footwork and with football, especially with the punching technique you get the hand…

— Rashad Evans

Football helped me tremendously, and that's why I want the sport to stay because it's so valuable. It's helped me be a…

— Myron Rolle

When you discipline yourself to do what is hard, you gain access to a realm of results that are denied everyone else.…

— Steve Pavlina

It is possible with pure willpower to force the kundalini up the shushumna, through the chakras. You will develop visions of other…

— Frederick Lenz

I am a highly disciplined person. I get up at seven every morning and, still in my pajamas, sit down at my…

— Orhan Pamuk

Bandara was not an easy place to return to: it could hide from the common worlds whose periphery it inhabited. But Bandara…

— Janet Morris

I have disciplined myself when I'm working. When I discovered art, I realized that one could keep that search going within creation.…

— Patti Smith

The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; the…

— Matthew Arnold

“Productive mediocrity requires discipline of an ordinary kind. It is safe and threatens no one. Nothing will be changed by mediocrity. . . . But…

— Adam M. Grant

“When it comes to signing up new talent, that's what I'm looking for-- not just someone who has the skill, but someone…

— Jay-Z

We are living at a time when the Prostestant church is rediscovering the truth that transformation in Christ occurs through the disciplines…

— Greg Oden

“The divine mandate to use the world justly and charitably, then, defines every person's moral predicament as that of a steward. But…

— Wendell Berry

Through the years, I have discovered some essential principles in discerning God's will: First, by God's grace, we must be firmly committed…

— Paul Washer

To most people, paranoia carries a negative connotation. I believe it is one of the most valuable attributes a leader can have.…

— Dinesh Paliwal

“Nero believes that risk-conscious hard work and discipline can lead someone to achieve a comfortable life with a very high probability. Beyond…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Sometimes when you come from outside a discipline you pay attention to things that insiders take for granted. I admit that sometimes…

— Vito Acconci

You know, we're the most undisciplined generation the world has ever knownhow many of you are disciplined? How many go to bed…

— Leonard Ravenhill

“The more power you give your child in any discipline process, the more likely he will be to be able to make…

— Hilary Flower

Dancers are trained to be disciplined to do what they are told, but I knew that time goes by, and I didn't…

— Sylvie Guillem

I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument.

— Suzanne Farrell

Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is…

— Gautama Buddha

Writing is a sedentary gig unless one has a treadmill desk. But I have long believed writing and working out are complementary…

— Laura Lippman

There is no convenient Messiah. Salvation comes only through discipline and sacrifice.

— Jeffrey R. Holland

The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines.

— Harry Wong

A child who is disciplined will be more obedient and also more organized as a student.

— Bill Cosby

Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.

— Brian Greene

The start of the day is often the best time to get things done. This is somewhat related to willpower.

— Tim Ferriss

Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around…

— Claudia Gray

In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.

— Hermann Goring

“You are either going to go through the pain of disappointment or discipline in your life. The latter makes the pain worth…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“Success = Wisdom + Courage + Discipline. KNOW what to do, be BRAVE enough to do it, and LEAD YOURSELF to doing…

— Ryan Lilly

“True creativity in medicine doesn't take place within disciplines so much as it does at the boundaries between disciplines.”

— Toby Cosgrove

Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.

— Shaun McNiff