Quotes about Discipline

The great reformer Martin Luther is quoted as saying, "I have so much to do today, I'll need to spend another hour on my knees.

But borrowing strength builds weakness. It builds weakness in the borrower because it reinforces dependence on external factors to get things done. It builds weakness in the person forced to acquiesce, stunting the development of independent reasoning, growth, and internal discipline. And finally, it builds weakness in the relationship. Fear replaces cooperation, and both people involved become more arbitrary and defensive.

He realized that real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

It is said that wars are won in the general's tent. Sharpening the saw in the first three dimensions—the physical, the spiritual, and the mental—is a practice I call the "Daily Private Victory." And I commend to you the simple practice of spending one hour a day every day doing it—one hour a day for the rest of your life.

There is no effectiveness without discipline and there is no discipline without character. And there is no character without first starting and asking questions.

Define a habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.

Borrowing strength builds weakness. It builds weakness in the borrower because it reinforces dependence on external factors to get things done. It builds weakness in the person forced to acquiesce, stunting the development of independent reasoning, growth, and internal discipline. And finally, it builds weakness in the relationship. Fear replaces cooperation, and both people involved become more arbitrary and defensive.

Discipline will never bring about love for God, but love for God will bring about discipline.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

Temperance is love in training.

If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.

Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.