Quotes about Discipline
The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up. You have to cut every step with an ice axe. Only with incessant labor in cutting and chipping can you make any progress. If you want to know how to backslide, leave off going forward. Cease going upward and you will go downward of necessity. You can never stand still.
- Charles Spurgeon
Before you act; Listen, before you react; Think, before you spend; Earn, before you criticize; Wait, before you pray; Forgive, before you quit; Try.
- Ernest Hemingway
Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.
- Marcus Aurelius
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
- Marcus Aurelius
The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.
- Margaret Mead
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
- St. Jerome
There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.
- Henry David Thoreau
Fasting of the body is food for the soul.
- St. John Chrysostom
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
- Samuel Johnson
It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.
- St. John Chrysostom
And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.
- Dorothy Sayers