discipline Quotes

Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

"It's a question of discipline,' the little prince told me later on. 'when you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet. you must be sure you pull up the baobabs regularly, as soon as you can... ...

I don't think you're as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work.

In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

Quality isn't a single act; it's a regular practice.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant... ...