Quotes about Discipline

Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.

We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails

There's nothing you've ever been successful at that you didn't work on every day.

Those who can command themselves command others.

The whole art of training consists in two things, exercise and abstinence, abstinence and exercise, repeated alternately without end.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can... . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the ore our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work

To accomplish anything extraordinary you must blend desire for the goal with the will to take action to achieve it. This is how you commit to making yourself do what's right, whether you feel like it or not. The key is self-control.

Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

The Son of God fasted because He knew there were supernatural things that could only be released that way.

People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.