Best 2007 quotes in «discipline quotes» category

Where are you getting your affection? Who's touching you? Who's holding you? Who makes you feel alive? Who says, "You are a beautiful person, you are the beloved of God, don't forget it"? That's an important discipline.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit.

Whether fighting or spitting, my discipline is unforgiving!

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

While everyone exercises influence, the size and strength of our influence depends upon our effort.  No one leads well without paying the price of discipline.  As we push ourselves to grow and to learn, we enlarge our sphere of influence.

While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined.

While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires. Instead, most choose the shinier track of debt-driven consumption, which they find further along is covered in vines and thorns.

While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.

... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation.

William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in acquiring knowledge. Any reader, of any age, will enjoythis book.

Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

With everything you do as an actor, you obviously know the full story. But the person watching it doesn't, necessarily. So, you just have to discipline yourself to wipe the slate clean as you go along.

With me, meditation is the only essential religion. And everything that follows it is virtue, because it comes of its own accord. You don't have to drag it, you don't have to discipline yourself for it. I have nothing to do with vegetarianism, but I know that if you meditate you are going to grow new perceptivity, new sensitivity, and you cannot kill animals.

Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.

Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing! One day, and I might not be around; you're going to meet a tough guy who takes your best shot. He'll keep coming because he's tough. Don't get discouraged. That's when the discipline comes in.

Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the Discipline. If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: 'Certainly, this is not the Blessed One's utterance; this has been misunderstood by that bhikkhu - or by that community, or by those elders, or by that elder.' In that way, bhikkhus, you should reject it.

Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.

Without discipline in spiritual pursuits, the central nervous system doesn't have a chance to adjust and grow with the increased demand. It would be like putting a high voltage into a small bulb—it is bound to explode.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.

Without self-discipline, a noncommissioned officer can never develop or maintain personal integrity.

Without the cross the Discipline of Confession would be merely therapeutic. But it is so much more. It involves an objective [a better word would have been "metaphysical"] change in our relationship with God and a subjective change in us. It is a means of healing and transforming the inner spirit.

With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army.

With prayer, you may be able to start one discipline or habit that will overflow into many more positive, God-honoring traits.

With self-discipline, all things are possible

With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.

With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains

Work is a means; it is not an end. And for any tasks that can be performed or eliminated by a capital instrument, human labor is not the best means... Furthermore, we have science, engineering and management - the three disciplines - that really plan and control the production of goods and services, trying to eliminate labor. Who the hell is government to come along and try to create labor? The people who are producing wealth are trying to eliminate toil, while the politicians are trying to create it.

Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.

Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.

Worship is of fundamental significance to the life of the individual and to the corporate life of the church, yet we rarely hear it taught as a discipline or practice in the gathering of believers.

Writers are interested in a diverse range of subjects, but prefer to move from field to field to satisfy intellectual curiosity, rather than devote an entire working life to one particular discipline.

Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

Yoga is a philosophy of discipline and meditation that transforms the spirit and makes the individual a better person in thought, action, knowledge and devotion.

Yoga began as a philosophy rather than as a physical discipline.

You always have to be available for people, and you have to be clearly stating what you want to see, in so many disciplines, all at the same time.

You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life.

You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred

You can achieve almost any goal you set for yourself as long as you have the discipline to pay the price to do what you need to do and to never give up. You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.

You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

You cannot antagonize and be a positive influence, and you will antagonize when you discipline through emotion.

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.

You cannot be healthy and happy without discipline. If you want to measure the level of happiness in your life, just measure the level of discipline in your life. You will never have more happiness than you have discipline.

You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have you seen a few policemen handle a crowd?