Discipline Quotes - Page 26

Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.

If you break a discipline once, the next transgression becomes much easier.

The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but with the discipline itself will have a lower opinion of himself, the more excellent he is.

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.

Discipline and demand without being demeaning.

No one likes to fail. But we mortals do not become champions without effort and discipline or without making mistakes.

Productivity isn't magic. It's discipline.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize.

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

You can achieve almost any goal you set for yourself as long as you have the discipline to pay the price to do what you need to do and to never give up. You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

God does not discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness.

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

Discipline is the servant of inspiration.

The great challenge is how to marry creativity with discipline so that discipline amplifies creativity without destroying it.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

Leaders aren't born they are made.

Mental toughness is a state of mind - you could call it 'character in action.'

Success is processional. It's the result of a series of small disciplines that lead us into habitual patterns of success that no longer require consistent will or effort.

I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.

The whole point is to discipline the mind.