Quotes about Discipline

It's deceiving but true that we rarely see any immediate consequences for neglecting a single installment of time in any arena of life. But if neglect becomes your pattern, you will eventually bump up against our third principle: 3. Neglect has a cumulative effect.

We should discipline with the goal of teaching our children the critical life skill of making things right with the people they've wronged.

We don't drift in good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.

I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

When I grew up, my model of God was like a lifeguard: I knew He loved me, but He blew his whistle a lot.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.

When families break down, you have a lot of repercussion from that, from poverty to crime to lack of discipline.

You've got to make sure that every body's putting in the work and you've got to have the discipline to go out there and get the job done.