Quotes about Discipline

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

We must live a holy life if we want to pray.

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

Take the pains required to become what you want to become, or you might end up becoming something you'd rather not be. That is also a daily discipline and worth considering.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways of knowing, and all are valid in their proper domain. The world is too complex and interesting for one way to hold all the answers.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.