“There is no study that is not capable of delighting us, after a little application to it.”— Alexander Pope
“If you don’t acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering.”— Jeff Goins
“Sweetest of all is liberty. This we have chosen and this we pay for. We have embraced the laws of Lykurgus, and they are stern laws. They have schooled us to scorn the life of leisure, which this rich land of ours would bestow upon us if we wished, and instead to enroll ourselves in the academy of discipline and sacrifice. Guided by these laws, our fathers for twenty generations have breathed the blessed air of freedom and have paid the bill in full when it was presented. We, their sons, can do no less.”— Steven Pressfield
“Freedom or prison–what’s the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“He (Kris Medlin) has a communication with a force in pitching that most of us can’t talk to. It’s an awareness; it’s a sixth sense. When he steps in and stares in to that catcher, that little man on his shoulder’s going to take over and tell him what to do. And he’s done it well.”— Don Sutton
“One reason we never tame the busy this beast is that we are unwilling to kill anything.”— Kevin DeYoung
“It is not what you look at, but rather what you see that matters. Set your focus right.”— Emmanuel Ayensu
“All of your precious resources – time, energy, talent, passion, and money – should only go to the areas of your life or your business that are best, are fixable, and are indespensable. Otherwise, average sets in and [your life] does not become what it was designed to be.”— Henry Cloud
“A five-year-old who can follow the ball for ten minutes becomes a sixth grader who can start his homework on time.”— Charles Duhigg
“The ways of the world exalt themselves against God. They sometimes look rational and appealing to the most ernest disciple but Christ says to us then what He said to His disciples long ago, when many of them had given u pin disgust, “Do you also want to leave me?” If we answer as PEter did, “Lord to whom else shall we go? Your words are words of eternal life,” our rebel thoughts are captured once more. The way of holiness is again visible.”— Elisabeth Elliot
“The daily mindfulness, consistency, and discipline is ultimately more important than the amount of time. In other words, it’s more about quality than quantity. If you use 15 minutes effectively, you’ll accomplish more than you would be able to with two hours of unfocused, random actions.”— Simon S. Tam
“This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST.”— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“Our superintendence in instruction and discipline is the office of the Word, from whom we learn frugality and humility, and all that pertains to love of truth, love of humanity, and love of excellence. And so, in a word, being assimilated to God by participation in moral excellence, we must not retrograde into carelessness and sloth. But labor, and faint not.”— Clement of Alexandria
“I can’t think of anything that anyone has ever accomplished without having some sort of self-discipline. Without knowing how to work for it. Without learning how to earn it. I talk to my friends who are writers. I say, “Well, how do you do it?” Most all of them will say, “I sit down. I force myself every day to sit down and write for at least two hours. Whether something comes out of it or doesn’t come out of it, whether I finish my fifty pages or two, I sit down and I do that because I have to make myself do it.”That’s what a work ethic is. Any person I know who is successful in my business or any other business is so because they work their asses off for it, because nothing is for free. If you want something, if you want to achieve success in any area of life, you must apply your discipline and your work ethic. Because discipline is what helps you consciously do things in order to reach a desired goal. Discipline is a rejection of entitlement and expectation. Discipline is having a strong awareness that your choices have impact and that your actions make a difference.”— Cameron Díaz
“As his mind becomes purer and his emotions come under control, his thoughts become clearer and his instincts truer. As he learns to live more and more in harmony with his higher Self, his body’s natural intuition becomes active of itself. The result is that false desires and unnatural instincts which have been imposed upon it by others or by himself will become weaker and weaker and fall away entirely in time. This may happen without any attempt to undergo an elaborate system of self-discipline on his part: yet it will affect his way of living, his diet, his habits. False cravings like the craving for smoking tobacco will vanish of their own accord; false appetites like the appetite for alcoholic liquor or flesh food will likewise vanish; but the more deep-seated the desire, the longer it will take to uproot it–except in the case of some who will hear and answer a heroic call for an abrupt change.”— Paul Brunton
“You cannot stop loving your child because you know that he has committed a wrong action. But you certainly stop loving yourself for loving him. ~ Rudransh Kashyap”— Kirtida Gautam
“Oh Man! Maternal love is a bitch. It takes a woman in its grip at the most unexpected moments. ~ Ananya Mehta”— Kirtida Gautam
“Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other – on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.”— Haim G. Ginott
“My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too — enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser”— Diana Gabaldon
“When a child hits a child, we call it aggression.When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility.When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault.When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.”— Haim G. Ginott
“We cultivate our feelings the way we cultivate a garden: we can’t entirely prevent weeds from coming up, but we can take care to remove them before they do much harm.”— Phillip Cary
“You know what’s wrong with scientific power?… It’s a form of inherited wealth… Most kinds of power require a substantial sacrifice by whoever wants the power. There is an apprenticeship, a discipline lasting many years. Whatever kind of power you want. President of the company. Black belt in karate. Spiritual Guru. Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can’t be given away: it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline. Now, what is interesting about this process is that, by the time someone has acquired the ability to kill with his bare hands, he has also matured to the point where he won’t use it unwisely. So that kind of power has a built-in control. The discipline of getting the power changes you so that you won’t abuse it. But scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step… There is no discipline… no mastery: old scientists are ignored. There is no humility before nature… A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has purchased his power in the form of a Saturday night special. And that is the kind of power that science fosters, and permits.”— Michael Crichton
“A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.”— Max Gluckman