Quotes about Discipline

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.

She accused him of having grandiose ideas and sloppy habits, a fatal combination for a writer.

I am no longer tormented by an excess of discipline, as I was before.

If a player continues transgressing the rules, his side shall lose him.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not these fifty things I dabble in.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses, though he be not drunk.

It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.