Discipline Quotes - Page 23

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and regularity of former times, and celebrates the discipline and sobriety of the age in which his youth was passed; a happy age which is now no more to be expected, since confusion has broken in upon the world, and thrown down all the boundaries of civility and reverence.

The General Order is always: ......To manoeuver in a body and on the attack. ......To maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline. ......To keep the troops constantly at the ready. ......To employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go. ......To use the bayonet on every possible occasion. And to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.

The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.

There is no single truth, but each of the scholarly disciplines has methods which lead one ever closer to the truth.

With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

Experts in aging make a distinction between passive aging and purposeful aging. Successful, purposeful aging calls for continued involvement, relationships, discipline, and an attitude of faith.

Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of battle.

Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit?

I want to dedicate myself to training and discipline. I want to spend every moment of every day working to improve myself.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.

Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.

There is nothing like having to change your physical form to put you in contact with every weak part of yourself, to train yourself in discipline. Put somebody on a treadmill and I'll tell you how good they are at any other thing they do in life.

Discipleship is a daily discipline; we follow Jesus a step at a time, a day at a time

In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings, had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like an artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.

Value investing requires a great deal of hard work, unusually strict discipline, and a long-term investment horizon. Few are willing and able to devote sufficient time and effort to become value investors, and only a fraction of those have the proper mind-set to succeed.

I think we've been a lot more disciplined with our bowling. Our batting at times has been more disciplined as well.

In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of discoveries in different scholarly disciplines. The convergence in the results of these independent studies—which was neither planned nor sought—constitutes in itself a significant argument in favor of the theory.

Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.

A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.

In war, discipline can do more than fury.