Discipline Quotes

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

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.

You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.

All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

We have enough space in our hearts, but we are afraid of allowing animals shit and mess around with our feelings.

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

Great men have great discipline.

His father, that austere, unfeeling and untutored man, had insisted his sons polish their boots every evening. Flett has learned to be grateful for this early discipline. It kept him breathing as a boy, provided a pulse, gave order to vast incomprehension. Later he found other ways.

Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.

Anything or everything can happen. You determine how good or bad they are

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows
with the ability to say no to oneself.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.

As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.