Quotes about Discipline

If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

When I am in situations where I break out of the pattern, it's hard on me. Once you get used to regular scripture study, you miss it if you don't have it. It's like food - you have to have it. I know that I need the scriptures like I need food. I don't miss a regular meal, and I don't miss regular scripture study.

Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the instruments of love.

She is buttoned-up as always, a smart suit, dark hair pulled back, never letting her guard down while on camera. Her job, she has told me more than once, is not to make friends with the staff but to keep them organized, praise good work, and sweat the details so I can focus on the hard, big stuff.

If a goal is really important to me, I discipline myself in order to achieve it.

If you're a serious-minded leader, you will read.

What's wrong in our world will not be set right until people who love God and who refuse to cave to these overwhelming challenges put the things they believe into action, things like courage and discipline and love.

Remember: the amateur works until he can get it right. The professional works until he cannot go wrong.

gets up very early each morning and spends two or three hours in prayer and then an hour or two reading the Bible.

We could read every book even written on prayer, but that won't make us people of prayer. We learn to pray by doing it.