Quotes about Discipline

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.

She accused him of having grandiose ideas and sloppy habits, a fatal combination for a writer.

I am no longer tormented by an excess of discipline, as I was before.

If a player continues transgressing the rules, his side shall lose him.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not these fifty things I dabble in.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses, though he be not drunk.

It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.