Quotes about Discipline

Buy the truth and do not sell it; get wisdom, discipline and understanding. PROVERBS 23:23

Some people are focused on their losses, their flaws, their mistakes, the times they didn't measure up. You need to focus on your victories, focus on the times you succeeded, you resisted the temptation, you were disciplined.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

A good deal of frustration and unhappiness could be avoided if people would just do what they know they should do.

one extra hour of study per day and you 'll be a national expert in five years or less

In prayer, we bring to Jesus those anxieties and insecurities that would otherwise fuel our outrage. The discipline of prayer prevents us from venting, flaming, or savaging others, either in person or online. I've never seen people go after someone they're praying for.

The discipline of prayer actually guards our hearts and minds in Christ.

Fasting: disciplining spiritual/gospel reliance.

Fasting is by far the most neglected spiritual discipline, with roughly 80 percent of churchgoing Protestants saying they have not fasted in the past six months.

Dedicating ourselves to Scripture reading, prayer, and fasting enables us to reset our minds, steering us away from the road toward outrage and onto the path of peace.