Quotes about Discipline

Wise people put as much distance between themselves and sexual temptation as possible. They not only get away but also plan their escape route.

It's the things no one sees that result in the things everyone wants.

To be great at a few things and experience it, you have to say no to many things.

Extreme measures bring extreme results. If you want a normal life, do what normal people do. If you want to know God intimately, walk with Him daily, and please Him in every way, you're going to have to do what few do. Absolutely nothing.

Good habits are difficult to start because the pain comes now and the payoff is in the future. Bad habits are difficult to stop because the payoff comes now and the pain is in the future.

To train is to commit to developing strategic habits that equip you to do the right thing in the moment.

The question is: Will you choose the pain of discipline or the pain of regret?

It's remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.

There you are. A simple commandment. Not ten of them, just one: 'Thou shalt not eat.' (Personally, I wish the very first edict from God hadn't involved dieting, don't you?)

Study and work and work and study will keep in active exercise both the physical and mental. These two, rightly conducted, will not war against each other.

Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.