Discipline Quotes

Because you actually might not know what activities truly engage your attention and satisfy you, he says, it can be helpful to keep a diary of what you do all day and how you feel while doing it. Then, try to do more of what's rewarding, even if it takes an effort, and less of what isn't. Where optimal experience is concerned, he says, 'I just don't have the time' often means 'I just don't have the self-discipline.

~ Winifred Gallagher

A five-year-old who can follow the ball for ten minutes becomes a sixth grader who can start his homework on time.

~ Charles Duhigg

All of your precious resources - time, energy, talent, passion, and money - should only go to the areas of your life or your business that are best, are fixable, and are indespensable. Otherwise, average sets in and [your life] does not become what it was designed to be.

~ Henry Cloud

It is not what you look at, but rather what you see that matters. Set your focus right.

~ Emmanuel Ayensu

One reason we never tame the busy this beast is that we are unwilling to kill anything.

~ Kevin Deyoung

...a disciplined pursuit of less will keep us focused and make the greatest impact.

~ Tim Hiller

Entrepreneur, become so disciplined that even your distractions become focused.

~ Onyi Anyado

You have to be so disciplined that even your distractions become focused.

~ Onyi Anyado

He (Kris Medlin) has a communication with a force in pitching that most of us can’t talk to. It’s an awareness; it’s a sixth sense. When he steps in and stares in to that catcher, that little man on his shoulder’s going to take over and tell him what to do. And he’s done it well.

~ Don Sutton

Staring at the can clock never influence the appointed time that God has ordained for your manifestation. Hold your peace, but don't shift focus.

~ Bayode Ojo

Popularity makes no sense If your fame is a shame.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Sweetest of all is liberty. This we have chosen and this we pay for. We have embraced the laws of Lykurgus, and they are stern laws. They have schooled us to scorn the life of leisure, which this rich land of ours would bestow upon us if we wished, and instead to enroll ourselves in the academy of discipline and sacrifice. Guided by these laws, our fathers for twenty generations have breathed the blessed air of freedom and have paid the bill in full when it was presented. We, their sons, can do no less.

~ Steven Pressfield

If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.

~ Stanley Kubrick

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

~ Samael Aun Weor

Why am I impatient I am unsure for what is patience? And why should I ultimately feel that I am lacking in it. Is it timing? Waiting? Abstaining? Obligation? Longing? Torture? Perseverance? Discipline? Wanting? Someone recently referred to it as a staring contest between yourself, fate, god and chance. He also referred to it as a tease, a flirt. It's staring at her image when you want to hear her voice, feel her breath, taste her skin. Patience is the recovery from a really hot dream interrupted by the damn alarm clock. Patience is a hard cock with bound hands.

~ Leonora Morrison

Give me the discipline to get rid of the stuff that's not important, the freedom to savor the stuff that gives me joy, and the patience not to worry about the stuff that's messy but not hurting anybody.

~ Vinita Hampton Wright

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

~ Napoleon Hill

Bonobo discipline involves being schooled in a gentler, more playful fashion.

~ Susan Block

Only those who never stand up, never fall down.

~ Fedor Emelianenko

If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering.

~ Jeff Goins

We will have to work hard to rest.

~ Kevin Deyoung

I have plenty of information now, but I can't get it into words. I'm afraid it's too big a task for me. I wonder if I will find everything in life too big for my abilities. Well, time will tell. Theodore Roosevelt, writing in naval history in his spare time while in law school

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us, after a little application to it.

~ Alexander Pope

I made the exhilarating discovery that study, when it is pursued with ardour and discipline, becomes creation.

~ W.k. Hancock

‎If there is no discipline, there is anarchy. Good citizenship demands attention to responsibilities as well as rights.

~ Joe Clark

The Hierarchic Qualm: The sword kills. But the arm moves the sword. Is the arm to blame for murder? No. The mind moves the arm. Is the mind to blame? No. The mind has sworn an oath to duty, and that duty moves the mind, as written by the Throne. So it is that a servant of the Throne is blameless.

~ Seth Dickinson

We know what we should do. Age is no excuse. Do we go to others for permission or for discipline?

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Everything that is online is not necessarily in line.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

All discourses and disciplines proceed from commitments and beliefs that are ultimately religious in nature. No scientific discourse (whether natural science or social science) simply discloses to us the facts of reality to which theology must submit; rather, every discourse is, in some sense, religious. The playing field has been leveled. Theology is most persistently postmodern when it rejects a lingering correlational false humility and instead speaks unapologetically from the the primacy of Christian revelation and the church's confessional language.

~ James K.a. Smith

Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously communicate requires that one's mind not be a blank slate but already properly formed, disciplined, and exercised.

~ Gregory B. Sadler

The British boy suffers the greatest restraint during the period when the call of nature, the instincts of play and adventure, are most urgent. Naturally, he looks eagerly forward to the time of escape, which he fondly imagines will be when his boyhood is over and he is free of masters.

~ William Henry Hudson

Fine art is the discipline of breaking rules.

~ M.b. Dallocchio

You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice.

~ Eric Liddell

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

~ Oswald Chambers

Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

Never base motivation or fear, entirely.

~ Peter Heather

It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.

~ Joseph J. Ellis

wonderful people are made, not born – that the people I admired had achieved an unfakeable inner virtue, built slowly from specific moral and spiritual accomplishments.

~ David Brooks

If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.

~ Richard Rohr