Discipline Quotes · Page 96

What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.

— Bill Parcells

Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.

— Cheri Huber

If you do not master the art of self discipline- you will succumb to the emotions and reality of regret.

— John Assaraf

All military history records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than numbers and resources.

— Robert E. Lee

“I was vaguely attracted to both library science and accounting, for the way that these disciplines impose order on chaos.”

— Kathleen Norris

I'm tremendously optimistic about the future of my discipline, yet understanding the brain is so difficult that we neuroscientists need help.

— Sebastian Seung

Overtraining is the biggest problem incurred by runners who lack the experience or discipline to cope with their own enthusiasm.

— Marty Liquori

I just put drugs down to luck. I persevere quite honestly, and I've got a fair amount of discipline that keeps me…

— David Bowie

For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university,…

— Michel Onfray

I'm the disciplinarian. Nick doesn't discipline. The cat can do whatever it wants. It can scratch on the furniture. It can do…

— Bridget Marquardt

Discipline yourself. Be conscious of what you think, and what you like. What gets you mad? What gets you in your feelings?…

— Tee Grizzley

“Endurance is the key that we need in the journey to Christ-likeness. It is the test of our discipline, commitment and integrity.…

— Prasanth Jonathan

I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so…

— Daniel Alarcon

There are weaknesses that you have to understand and it takes a lot of discipline for the players to be able to…

— Tony Dungy

I was starstruck by Madonna. She's one of the few remaining superstars. I'm so impressed by her level of discipline towards her…

— Donna Air

All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realisation of this third stage, adoption,…

— Tom Regan

“It's a question of discipline. When you finish washing and dressing each morning, you must carefully wash and dress your planet. You…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[E]volutionists sometimes take as haughty an attitude toward the next level up the conventional ladder of disciplines: the human sciences. They decry…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“A lot of self-help methods are based on mental discipline or on working through emotional issues. What these approaches lack in an…

— David Patchell-Evans

When the most abstract and "useless" disciplines have been cultivated for a time, they are often seized upon as practical tools by…

— James R Newman

We are coming to the times when passive Christianity and passive Christians will cease to exist. There is a maturity, a discipline…

— Rick Joyner

“Some parents cannot distinguish between punishment and discipline. Anyone can punish a child and many parents do it out of frustration. Discipline…

— Eric W. Hickey

IN THE BEGINNING I undertook my walking not only to contact people, I undertook it as a prayer discipline to keep me…

— Peace Pilgrim

“Customer service is bad because we allow it to be bad. What do you do when you get bad service? Tell the…

— Larry Winget

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

— Maury Massler

“He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding” (Proverbs 15:32).”

— Tedd Tripp

Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered.

— Henry Sy

Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there.

— George Washington

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

— Mario Monti

One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.

— Siobhan Davies

“You should train disciples and followers to work and perform better than you did”

— Sunday Adelaja

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of…

— Harry S Truman

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy…

— Edith Sitwell

Self-discipline is must to realize your aims. You need to organize all your inner strength to be able to confidently move towards…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“Silence is the discipline that helps us to go beyond the entertainment quality of our lives.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

“God’s supernatural self-control is available to us when we walk by the Spirit.”

— Elizabeth George

“It is the size of the willpower that determines the size of the life waves we ride above”

— Keagana 'Thuso

“Self-control issues are most likely to arise when choices and their consequences are separated in time.”

— Richard H. Thaler

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

— William Hague