Quotes about Discipline

Winners understand that taking that pain now prevents a lot more pain later.

Eating three times a day even if you're not hungry.

Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.

The most successful people in life are the ones who settle their critical issues early and manage them daily.

I say, make the decision, and as soon as you make the decision, the rest of your life you just manage that decision on a daily basis.

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.

The Greek word used to translate the Aramaic word for meekness, which Jesus used in the Prophetic Blessing, was the word used for an animal that had been tamed and brought under the control of the bit and reins of its master. Meekness is power under control!

Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.

This work of keeping the heart is the hardest of all. "To shuffle over religious duties with a loose and heedless spirit, will cost no great pains; but to set thyself before the Lord, and tie up thy loose and vain thoughts to a constant and serious attendance upon Him: this will cost something!

I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.

Wayward, disobedient children cause their parents grief and anxiety.