Quotes about Discipline

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

Many times the rewards of fasting come after the fast, though from time to time answers can come during the fast.

You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time.

Decide that you will not try to do everything at once. That is why time is spread out.

He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

God knows there is never a convenient time to fast.

Go beyond what you feel like doing and do what's right. Every time you do what's right when you don't feel like it, you are growing.

Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.

past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope. Build community. Nurture those less fortunate. Become yourself. Seek God. No less potent steps than these will be deep enough to move you forward.

Practice kindness, and you start to become kind. Practice discipline, and you start to become disciplined. Practice forgiveness, and you start to become forgiving. Practice charity, and you start to become charitable. Practice gentleness, and you start to become gentle.

Spiritual discipline: any activity I do by direct effort that will help me do what I cannot now do by direct effort.