Without discipline, there's no life at all.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.
~By Steve Winwood ~
My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
I am very disciplined in my life and very up front. It is the only way I can do it and do it well. I am up every day at 7, and I feed my kids, no matter how long the day was.
~By Sean Hannity ~
Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.
~By Georg Brandes ~
There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.
~By Robert De Niro ~
The first thing they were told was how to hone their talent. Then they were told how to market their talent, discipline their talent and type their talent. And then they were told they might as well forget about talent.
~By Esther B. Fein ~
You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.
~By William H. O'Connell ~
Jack made it very comfortable for me on the set. We'd met socially before but never worked together. You know, he's very professional, very disciplined and he's always prepared and knows his lines.
~By Kathy Bates ~
To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
~By Ruth Hubbard ~
Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture.
~By John Patrick ~
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
~By George Washington ~
Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.
~By David Sylvian ~
Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.
~By Jahangir Khan ~
To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.
~By Colin Mochrie ~
There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.
~By John Boorman ~
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
~By Plato ~
My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
~By Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
Error is discipline through which we advance.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.
~By Helen Hayes ~
Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
First you learn a new language, profanity; and second you learn not to discipline your dogs when you're mad, and that's most of the time when you're training dogs.
~By Lou Schultz ~
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
~By Gary Ryan Blair ~
For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline.
~By Robert Vaughn ~
Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.
~By Erika Slezak ~
You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
~By Ann Patchett ~
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
~By M. Scott Peck ~
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
~By Washington Irving ~
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.
~By Russell Banks ~
Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made.
~By Pepper Schwartz ~
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
~By Jean Giraudoux ~
I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.
~By Ethel Merman ~
I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so essentially a part and an explanation of much that exists, the two disciplines blended very well.
~By Frank Scott ~
I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule.
~By Donna Shalala ~
I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.
~By Neil Gaiman ~
I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.
~By George W. Bush ~
Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
~By Barbara Ann Scott ~
It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.
~By Bernice Johnson Reagon ~
It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.
~By Blair Underwood ~
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that.
~By Piers Anthony ~
Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices.
~By Mike Ditka ~
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.
~By John Malkovich ~
For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.
~By Brandon Lee ~
I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.
~By Wyclef Jean ~
I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
~By Hal Holbrook ~
But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance.
~By Steve Spurrier ~
Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.
~By Gary Ryan Blair ~
Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.
~By Mike Johanns ~
You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.
~By Blythe Danner ~
Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.
~By Bill Bruford ~
In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
~By Jim Rohn ~
They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.
~By Kelly Preston ~
With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.
~By Wilma Rudolph ~
The disciplined are free.
~By James Cash Penney ~
Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen.
~By Frank Luntz ~
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.
~By Celine Dion ~
I stand before you today as a disciplined conservative Texan, a committed Republican and a proud American, united with you to restoring our nation and revive the American dream.
~By Rick Perry ~
You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.
~By Courtney Thorne Smith ~
At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.
~By Amar Bose ~
It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
~By Buddha ~
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
~By Clint Eastwood ~
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
~By Stephen Covey ~
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
~By Adam Smith ~
I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.
~By Ishmael Reed ~
When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?
~By Patricia Ireland ~
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.
~By Daisy Fuentes ~
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
~By George Washington ~
I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline.
~By John McCain ~
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
~By Henry Moore ~
Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.
~By Larry Holmes ~
When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipline.
~By Jerome Hines ~
The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline.
~By Philippe Perrin ~
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
~By Julie Andrews ~
I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.
~By Max Weinberg ~
The administration's reckless plan doesn't do one thing to ensure the long term security of social security, rather it undermines our economy. We need a budget and a fiscal policy that reflects the values and interests of America and restores fiscal discipline.
~By Debbie Stabenow ~
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.
~By Liam Gallagher ~
I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
~By Venerable Bede ~
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
~By Zig Ziglar ~
People like me have to have the discipline only to work for clients, corporations, political people, products, services, networks that we believe in and we want to see succeed.
~By Frank Luntz ~
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.
~By John Dalton ~
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
~By Jim Rohn ~
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