Quotes about Discipline

Don't make excuses. Make commitments and stick to them.

The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.

God's purpose for your life cannot manifest in the midst of chaos. You can't reach the place you were destined to be if you're constantly getting sidetracked. You cannot reach your life purpose when everything in your life is undisciplined, distracted, and disordered.

There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms.

It's too bad prayer comes bundled in a package of 'spiritual disciplines.' Really, we should see prayer as a spiritual privilege. We don't do it as a callisthenic exercise to gain points with God; we do it, because it is good for us in every way.

The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.

The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

do all you can to stop the ungodly chatter.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives.