Discipline Quotes
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"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day."
"Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them."
"Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to oneself."
"We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause."
"Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a disciplined or undisciplined state of mind. It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching."
"Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence ,Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm!!"
"A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering."
"If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist."
"The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment."
"Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths."
"Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth."
"Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law."
"Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous."
"Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality."
"The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline."
"As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly."
"I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself."
"Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs."
"Most of my writing life, to be perfectly honest, is not freaky, old-timey, voodoo-style Big Magic. Most of my writing life consists of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that's how it gets done. Most of it is not like fairy dust in the least."
"Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline."
"The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one’s own most intimate sensitivity."
"Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a mother. [. . .] The will-parent must discipline the mind-child, avoiding both the opposite extremes commonly made in disciplining either children or thoughts: tyranny or permissiveness."
"The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it."
"In our worldly perceptions of Jesus, we tend to embrace the kindness of his love ('be encouraged') but not the discipline of his love ('and sin no more'). But with the whole scope of his love, or maturity in Christ, we begin relying on him for guidance where we would prefer him to walk beside us rather than behind us."
"Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise."
"A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her."
"All the things that are worth doing, take time."
"Good writing like good sex requires discipline."
"Passion is a Horse Given to Us to Discipline."
"Embrace who you are and your divine purpose. Identify the barriers in your life, and develop discipline, courage and the strength to permanently move beyond them, and keep moving forward."
"With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war."
"Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed."
"Discipline leads us to desire, which matures into delight."
Missionaries Who Love The Arab World, Live Dead: The Journey
"Anyone who, neglecting that fixed hour of prayer, [will] say he can pray at all times but will probably end in praying at no time."
"You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two."
"Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today."
Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
"If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work."
"This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete."
Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
"All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant."
Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
"Raise your vibration, Not your tone of voice..You gain inspiration, For Peace is a choice."
"Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within."
"When you decide not to discipline yourself to seek for knowledge in any area, God sees it as the rejection of knowledge."
"Do not let the temporal pain of discipline you need to acquire knowledge stop you from acquiring it."
"Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them."
"Discipline is the thing that makes you do what you might not want to, but you do it anyway because it's what you have to do in order to get what you want or desire."
"Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life."
"Self discipline is the mother of success"
"There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes."
"The average person will take the excuses, but the leader will always take responsibilities"
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