Discipline Quotes - Page 31

• If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

  W. Clement Stone

  Time, Destiny, Thinking

  44 Copy quote

• This is how [the] sport has contributed to my personality, toughness and discipline. I have a plan, and I work on it. I was going to add [the] before the word sport since I thought was either a typo or a problem translating what she said, but then I thought it made sense without it too , so I left it as is. Just know that that's not a typo on my part.

  Svetlana Khorkina

  Sports, Gymnastics, Personality

  10 Copy quote

• The sterner the discipline, the greater the devotion.

  Pete Carril

  Inspirational, Sports, Volleyball

  Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.104, U of Nebraska Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Feb 04, 2017

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Running, Competition

  15 Copy quote

• Judo is the way to the most effective use of both physical and spiritual strength. By training you in attacks and defenses it refines your body and your soul and helps you make the spiritual essence of Judo a part of your very being. In this way you are able to perfect yourself and contribute something of value to the world. This is the final goal of Judo discipline.

  Kano Jigoro

  Spiritual, Essence, Perfect

  "Dynamic Judo: Throwing Techniques". Book by Kazuzo Kudo, 1967.

  213 Copy quote

  Show source

• In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

  William Baldwin

  Giving, Work Ethic, Mental Toughness

  65 Copy quote

• Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments of ecstasy and also dullness, mindless distraction and acute concentration, flashes of joy and bouts of irritation. In other words, prayer has features in common with all relationships that matter.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Believe, Irritation

  Philip Yancey (1995). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.298, Harper Collins

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.

  Cesar Chavez

  Commitment, Form, Carrie

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.351, Penguin

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Motivational, Winning

  Twitter post from Jan 01, 2015

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the States the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in any religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the States.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Exercise, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.106

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Exercise, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Smart, Responsibility, Creativity

  16 Copy quote

• No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

  William Penn

  Wisdom, Business, Military

  William Penn (1849). “No Cross, No Crown: A Discourse, Shewing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ ...”, p.277

  87 Copy quote

  Show source

• The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.

  Thucydides

  Lying, Military, Army

  19 Copy quote

• We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Buddhism, Order

  18 Copy quote

• No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Health, Commitment

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1941). “Living under tension: sermons on Christianity today”

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted, the roots of public virtue first nourished. Through love and instruction, discipline, guidance and example, we learn from our mothers and fathers the values that will shape our private lives and our public citizenship.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mother, Father, Character

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.445, Best Books on

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh...Songwriting is best. It's the hardest-finest-tightest. It also requires the most discipline.

  Pete Townshend

  Father, Character, People

  10 Copy quote

• I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going to be interesting to other people. But I guess it was...I've never had any discipline whatsoever. I just wait on a song like I was waiting for lightning to strike. And eventually-usually sometime around 3 in the morning-I'll have a good idea. By the time the sun comes up, hopefully, I'll have a decent song.

  John Prine

  Song, Morning, Real

  44 Copy quote

• It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner

  Tim O'Reilly

  Business, Management, Economics

  "TIP OF THE DAY: Get People to Hold You Accountable". www.businessinsider.com. August 2, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline.

  John Irving

  Motivation, Talent

  5 Copy quote

• Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it's done.

  Ben Harper

  Writing, Knowing, Done

  21 Copy quote

• As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.

  Rosanne Cash

  Grief, Writing, Loss

  4 Copy quote

• Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.

  Pete Townshend

  Writing, Finest, Hardest

  8 Copy quote