Quotes about Discipline

The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

Keeping your body in shape is a spiritual discipline. Its not just about losing a few pounds, wanting to live longer, or trying to look nicer.

If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

Discipline of others isn't punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate.

The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.

Whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, the habits you are developing now will be with you for the rest of your life.

Mortification has to be carried to the pitch of non-attachment or (in the phrase of St. Fran$ois de Sales) 'holy indifference'; otherwise it merely transfers self-will from one channel to another, not merely without decrease in the total volume of that self-will, but sometimes with an actual increase.