One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
~ Helen Keller
Discipline isn't a dirty word. Far from it. Discipline is the one thing that separates us from chaos and anarchy. Discipline implies timing. It's the precursor to good behavior, and it never comes from bad behavior. People who associate discipline with punishment are wrong: with discipline, punishment is unnecessary.
~ Buck Brannaman
Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
~ John Irving
Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
~ Alain Badiou
It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as eminently inspiring and even miraculous.
~ Robert Greene
Just as a woman's eyes are the mirrors of her soul, her shapely bottom is her seat of learning.
~ Russ Michael
The wooden hairbrush has two practical uses, the bristle side to be used on her silken locks, and the harsh, wooden side to be used on her shapely seat of learning
It was more than just material prosperity. America in 1960 was a country where restraint and boundaries were the natural conditions in all arenas. People married younger and stayed married; even with those added twenty-eight million, there were fewer divorces in 1960 than there had been a decade earlier. People did not have children unless they were married—only 2.5 percent of children were born out of wedlock, though the number in black households was disturbingly high—some 20 percent.
~ Jeff Greenfield
Alex understood such discipline. He knew the rarity of it, and the cost. And on the rare occasions when he happened to touch her, he did wonder what else she might have been, if she had not been so determined to be typical.
~ Meredith Duran
I do not have it in for relativism. In many respects I find it a fascinating, even attractive, alternative. It engenders epistemological humility, defeats an arrogant pomposity in belief, even promotes a sort of democratic ideal in matters of knowledge. Perhaps its most comforting feature is that it requires no hard work at all in the matter of justifying beliefs.
~ David L. Wolfe
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.
~ Samuel Pepys
I'd been very influenced by what I'd seen in Japan. Part of what I greatly admired there - and part of what we were lacking in our factory - was as sense of teamwork and discipline. If we didn't have the discipline to keep that place spotless, then we weren't going to have the discipline to keep all those machines running.
~ Walter Isaacson
When you discipline a child, you prepare them for a responsible and accountable adulthood.
~ Gift Gugu Mona
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Discipline yourself to do what is necessary or you won't acquire the necessary...
~ Stephen Magnus
Make yourself a slave to good habits
~ Dan John
I had a plan of action that I was going to run by Will. He could run it up the flagpole, but I wasn’t asking permission. My mind was made up. I was going to The Confessional tonight too. If she wanted atonement, I’d be happy to give it to her.
~ Kimber Nilsson
Fasting may not be as easy as feasting, but after a while it is not too different. Both are extremes. It is not hard to go the extreme way, but what is really difficult is neither to fast nor to feast, but to be moderate in everything we do.
~ Eknath Easwaran
With practice, you build the road to accomplish your goals. Excellence lives in attention to detail. Give your all, all the time. Don't save anything for the walk home.
~ Ethan Hawke
Well, we come here to the Fastnesses mostly to learn what questions not to ask.But you're the Answerers!You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?No––To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Intellectual transcendence is achieved with the leap out of where you know too much, to where you have a lot to learn; then, facing the odds and turning the latter into the starting point of a new leap to where discipline outweighs all.
~ Majd Bassel Ostah Alhusseini
Oddly, with discipline, structure, and order, you will find freedom, anything is possible. Without it, locating your saddle may take all morning.
Discipline is critical to proper preparation.
~ Ken Marlin
For five years Isaac had been working eighteen hours a day.
~ John Hudson Tiner
Don't be quick to leave the class of discipline, you shall only live to remember the last lesson.
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I discipline my mind to see past distractions, to scrutinize deceptive tendencies and to pay careful attention to details whether I am conversing with others or I’m just a passive observer.
~ Carlos Wallace
God will never disappoint us. He loves us and has only one purpose for us : holiness, which in His kingdom equals joy.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Do first what you don’t want to do most.
~ Clifford Cohen
If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline.
It is nothing short of a transformed vision of reality that is able to see Christ as more real than the storm, love more real than hatred, meakness more real than pride, long-suffering more real than annoyance, holiness more real than sin. - Discipline
~ Elizabeth Elliot
ability is of no value without discipline. Winning has no style or substance without humility.
~ Andrew Critchley
The general consensus seemed to be that if prayer didn't take care of the problem, a belt to the ass and the threat of reform school would.
~ Steven Norton
Don't break your discipline, form it!
~ J.r. Rim
Good writing like good sex requires discipline.
~ Chloe Thurlow
You’re smarter than you look,’ I say to Raffe.‘But not as smart as he thinks,’ says Howler.‘I can see discipline has broken down during your vacation,’ says Raffe.‘Yeah, it’s all that lounging on the beach with nothing to do but drink and watch women.
~ Susan Ee
Once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success
~ Alex Ferguson
You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.
~ Robert Graves
Discipline is needed in our lifestyle.
~ Sunday Adelaja
Had we not decided to perform this as gracefully as a dancer’s leap? But we turned it into a dinosaur’s dance party!
~ Pawan Mishra
Discipline at the office had long been enforced by use of three methods: the meeting of the first kind, the meeting of the second kind, and the meeting of the third kind.
