Quotes about Discipline

The key to your success or failure lies in your daily habits.

Never start the day until you already have it designed, finished and documented.

Your success is hidden in the quality of your decisions and the consistency of your actions.

If you want to succeed, make it a study first then practice it and finally live it daily.

The abundant life doesn't happen by accident. It is the result of doing specific things purposefully every day and it requires an investment of time, energy and effort.

Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.

A life marked by daily answer to prayer is evidence of spiritual maturity.

And so He teaches us two lessons of deep importance about prayer. The one is that faith needs a life of prayer in which to grow and keep strong. The other is that prayer needs fasting for its full and perfect development.

Prayer is the one hand with which we grasp the invisible; fasting, the other, with which we let loose and cast away the visible.

But God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. . . . Without holiness no one will see the Lord. Hebrews 12:10, 14

I found our speech copious without order, and energetic without rules

God instituted sacrifice not for His own sake but for our sake. The sacrificial law is a means to God's glorious end: it disciplines His people, focusing their attention on worship, gratitude, sorrow for sin, the need for purity, and the necessity of renouncing everything in order to cling to God.