I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without constructive purpose.
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Arsonists are often mission based. They need to make sure their first fire has burnt out before they set another one. They're also highly disciplined and focused. If conditions aren't right to set a fire or, in this case, slash a throat, they'll move on.
— Jess Prosser, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com
After your mother passed, all I saw was evil....Everywhere. And all I cared about was…was keeping you boys alive. I wanted you prepared. Ready. So somewhere along the line, I, uh...I stopped being your father. And I-I became your…your drill sergeant.
— John Shiban, Cathryn Humphris, John Winchester, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, imdb.com
One form of perseverance is the daily discipline of trying to do things better than we did yesterday.
The children at risk of falling into the school-to-prison pipeline, Greene says, include not only the 5.2 million with ADHD, the 5 million with a learning disability, and the 2.2 million with anxiety disorders, but also the 16 million who have experienced repeated trauma or abuse, the 1.4 million wi…
Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.
Well, that’s one of the nice things about holding the purse strings. Eventually the children come around to seeing things your way.
This leads to the conclusion, it is time to finish retreating. Not one step back! Such should now be our main slogan.…Henceforth the solid law of discipline for each commander, Red Army soldier, and commissar should be the requirement—not a single step back without order from higher command.
If a people or a nation can reach their objectives by disciplined and peaceful means, it would be a most honourable and admirable achievement.
People should be disciplined and united to demonstrate the very fact that they are a people who can be disciplined and united.
Unless a man is master of his soul, all other kinds of mastery amount to little.
I just don’t have the willpower to hit up the gym every day for two hours, and the idea of cutting candy out of my diet seems impossible.
New levels require new discipline.
The least lack of discipline starts to erode our self-esteem.
The best thing Clinton could do – I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure – is to shut up.... He has no discipline.
Most of my career was negative. I accomplished what I set out to do, but I lost my discipline and my career. I got involved in going out. I got by on talent. That was my fatal mistake.
What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.
We don’t drift in good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.
Love isn’t something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling, it is a practice.
Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.