Discipline Quotes - Page 12

In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to what this new discipline involves, and as to which types of problem Leibniz and Wolff expected to see expressed in this way.

The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith — and faith will triumph.

If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.

God is interested in developing your character. At times He lets you proceed, but He will never let you go too far without discipline to bring you back. In your relationship with God, He may let you make a wrong decision. Then the Spirit of God causes you to recognize that it is not God's will. He guides you back to the right path.

The tragedy of young-earth creationism is that it takes a relatively recent and extreme view of Genesis, applies to it an unjustified scientific gloss, and then asks sincere and well-meaning seekers to swallow this whole, despite the massive discordance with decades of scientific evidence from multiple disciplines. Is it any wonder that many sadly turn away from faith concluding that they cannot believe in a God who asks for an abandonment of logic and reason?

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else. The routine is exceptionally powerful.

I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.

There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.

You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.

Patience and discipline can make you look foolishly out of touch until they make you look prudent and even prescient

Stay in your seat come times of trouble. Its only people who jump off the roller coaster who get hurt.

Some people may have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly, by “doin' what comes naturally”; and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

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

I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

Until you have the inner discipline that brings calmness of mind, external facilities and conditions will never bring the joy and happiness you seek. On the other hand, if you possess this inner quality, calmness of mind, a degree of stability within, even if you lack the various external factors that you would normally require to be happy, it will still be possible to live a happy and joyful life.

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

I liked being in the Marines. They gave me discipline I could live with. By the time I got out, I was able to cope with things on a more realistic level.

Elegance is a discipline of life.

One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.

The Bible parable says that while men slept, the enemy sowed tares among the wheat. A boy who rises at 4:30 to deliver papers is considered a go-getter, but to urge our young people to rise at 5:30 to pray is considered fanaticism. We must once again wear the harness of discipline. There is no other way.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Downturns are the best time to start businesses because you develop discipline that's very lean and mean in terms of how to spend money. And those habits serve you very well in good times.