Discipline Quotes

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.

Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.

I love chicken fingers, I love French fries. I love desserts. I'm not just into dessert or just into savoury food. I love it all. I'm a pig. I love food. So it takes a lot of discipline to eat healthy.

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day.

The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do.

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them.

My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline.

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline.

I really appreciate the sport background because the structure and the discipline that that gives a person is incredible, and it just carries with you wherever you go.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

This marched was planned to be non violent and non confrontational, and gladly it stayed that way. What really impressed me was the self discipline of the Black Block.

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they're my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have the discipline to go to the gym.

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.

Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

Sport has given me drive and discipline. It also taught me to remain humble.

As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either.

There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.

Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices.

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'

Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline.

Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.

I hated school, didn't like the discipline.

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.

I don't have a lot of discipline.

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.

I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.

I accomplished what I set out to do, but I lost my discipline and my career.

I eat everything, that's a problem. I don't have discipline. My favorite dish is the Caribbean. Meat, rice, lots of grains. But I do like to do exercises. Lately, I've been having capoeira classes and lots of cardiovascular exercises, such as jogging and cycling.

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline.

Donors, like voters, increasingly expect candidates to exercise fiscal discipline.

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.

'Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.

Many dogs grow up without rules or boundaries. They need exercise, discipline and affection in that order.