Discipline Quotes - Page 31

Discipline means protection from one's own wanton interest.

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

To be great at whatever it is that you do, it's going to take some discipline to separate yourself from the average.

Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave toward him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability.

If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure.

Learn to convert the discomfort of discipline into the satisfaction of personal growth.

There are weaknesses that you have to understand and it takes a lot of discipline for the players to be able to play it effectively and have confidence in what they're doing.

If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.

I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.

When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the hold of aggression, clinging, and negativity on your whole being, the wisdom of insight can slowly dawn. And in the all-revealing clarity of its sunlight, this insight can show you, distinctly and directly, both the subtlest workings of your own mind and the nature of reality.

Value investing is the discipline of buying shares at a significant discount from their current underlying values and holding them until more of their value is realised. The element of a bargain is the key to the process.

Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline.

Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy.

As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy.

Keeping your body in shape is a spiritual discipline. Its not just about losing a few pounds, wanting to live longer, or trying to look nicer.

When love and discipline come together you have great chemistry.

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God (or the Intelligent Designer) is simply immune to the normal demands of scientific explanation. To do so would be to shoot yourself in the foot. You cannot have it both ways. Either ID belongs in the science classroom, in which case it must submit to the discipline required of a scientific hypothesis. Or it does not, in which case, get it out of the science classroom and send it back to church, where it belongs.

You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.