Discipline Quotes

‘Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.’ – Jim Rohn

‘Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.’ – Abraham Joshua Heschel

‘Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.’ – Lou Holtz

‘It’s not just about winning or losing, but to learn about teamwork, learn about sportsmanship, learn about discipline. The value of working together for a common goal. Have the emphasis on fundamentals, not just games.’ – Erik Spoelstra

‘Talent is nothing without dedication and discipline, and dedication and discipline is a talent in itself.’ – Luke Campbell

‘Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘Confidence comes from discipline and training.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.’ – George Washington

‘Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I’m tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.’ – Johnny Weir

‘The discipline of desire is the background of character.’ – John Locke

‘Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.’ – Mike Ditka

‘Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.’ – Florence Nightingale

‘Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.’ – Nipsey Hussle

‘With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.’ – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

‘It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘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.’ – Buddha

‘The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.’ – Jocko Willink

‘Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘Discipline is doing what you really don’t want to do so you can do what you really want to do.’ – Jeff Fisher

‘Everything we want to do in life requires discipline. And like strength, flexibility, and endurance, it can be built up over time.’ – Laird Hamilton

‘Progress takes time and discipline.’ – Ronnie Coleman

‘Without discipline, there’s no life at all.’ – Katharine Hepburn

‘Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.’ – Frank Herbert

‘Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.’ – Stephen Covey

‘Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.’ – Calvin Coolidge

‘There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.’ – Jim Mattis

‘Discipline is remembering what you want.’ – David Campbell

‘Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.’ – Robert Baden-Powell

‘Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.’ – Haile Gebrselassie

‘Writing the perfect paper is a lot like a military operation. It takes discipline, foresight, research, strategy, and, if done right, ends in total victory.’ – Ryan Holiday

‘Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone’s watching or not.’ – Michael J. Fox

‘The surest test of discipline is its absence.’ – Clara Barton

‘Discipline yourself, and others won’t need to.’ – John Wooden

‘It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.’ – Alexis Ohanian

‘Believe in yourself, and find ways to express yourself, and find the discipline to keep growing.’ – Michael Feinstein

‘I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people’s ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That’s the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.’ – Rahul Dravid

‘God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!’ – Joyce Meyer

‘I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.’ – Dave Ramsey

‘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.’ – Gary Ryan Blair

‘It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘I wouldn’t be where I am right now, and have the right work ethic and discipline, if it weren’t for all the indie films I did. We weren’t pampered and were pretty much on our own.’ – Coco Martin

‘The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.’ – Bum Phillips

‘The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.’ – Lee Iacocca

‘Let’s not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can’t have high standards without good discipline.’ – William Hague

‘The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.’ – John Steinbeck

‘Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It’s not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline – and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.’ – Glennon Doyle Melton

‘The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘Life is not decided by lines on a palm but by the power of the will, hard work and discipline.’ – Milkha Singh

‘It doesn’t matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.’ – Harvey Mackay

‘Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.’ – Patrick Lencioni

‘Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a ‘physics’ or ‘anatomy’ of power, a technology.’ – Michel Foucault

‘Maybe it was the challenge of flight, the opportunity to fly, the competition of summer camp and the inspiration and discipline of West Point. I think all of those things helped me to develop a dedication and inspired me to get ahead.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.’ – Roy L. Smith

‘If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.’ – William Feather

‘I have a relationship with God. I do believe in God, The Son, and Holy Ghost. But I respect everybody, and as far as the Muslims go, I like how they live because they have discipline. They have real structure and I like.’ – Tee Grizzley

‘Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.’ – Julie Andrews

‘Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You’ve got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you’ve got to burn away all the peripherals.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.’ – Edwin Louis Cole

‘The fact is that, in all prisons everywhere, cruelties on the one hand and injudicious laxity of discipline on the other have at times appeared and will, at intervals, be renewed except the most vigilant oversight is maintained.’ – Dorothea Dix

‘Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.’ – Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

‘Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.’ – Margaret H. Hamilton

‘Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘The country needs fiscal discipline to build a strong economy and for social justice.’ – Smriti Irani

‘FIFA stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well.’ – Sepp Blatter

‘I am optimistic when I consider the spiritual dimension which the scientist’s discipline forces him to ignore.’ – William Golding

‘The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.’ – Vivienne Westwood

‘A child is born with a degree of primitive savagery and somebody must discipline it out of him. This Is where the government of the home comes in.’ – Agnes Moorehead

‘It takes hard work, dedication, discipline and a positive attitude to get to the top – in business or in sports.’ – George Blanda

‘Medical ethics is a fascinating discipline, as it deals with issues replete with complex philosophical, moral, and ethical considerations that are rarely black or white.’ – Gad Saad

‘Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It’s really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.’ – Sebastian Thrun

‘Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.’ – Jacqueline Bisset

‘Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.’ – Bernard Law Montgomery

‘Error is discipline through which we advance.’ – William Ellery Channing

‘There were six kids in our family, and I grew up fast. I had to do a lot of things on my own. I was a rebellious teenager. That’s why coming into the film business was good for me because it gave me some discipline. Once I became an actor, I had to grow up a little more.’ – Matt Dillon

‘We all naturally want to become successful… we also want to take shortcuts. And it’s easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.’ – Apolo Ohno

‘There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.’ – George S. Patton

‘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.’ – Wilma Rudolph

‘Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.’ – Samuel Smiles

‘The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.’ – Jocko Willink

‘Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forgo sleep. A penchant for sadomasochism. Ability to weather crises of faith and self-confidence. Accept exhaustion as fact of life. Addiction to caffeine a definite plus. Unfailing optimism that the end is in sight.’ – Khaled Hosseini

‘For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It’s not just a physical discipline.’ – Brandon Lee

‘The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.’ – Tariq Ramadan

‘No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer’s mind.’ – Tom Watson

‘When I was younger, I thought you had to be in control of your own life. That takes a lot of discipline, hard work and focus. You just can’t let it all fall by the wayside. Later on, I learned that God is really in control of everything. But you still have to put your best foot forward and be the best you can possibly be.’ – Janet Jackson

‘Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.’ – May Sarton

‘There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.’ – Robert De Niro

‘I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.’ – Fred Rogers

‘During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline… And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier’s heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.’ – Augusto Pinochet

‘Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.’ – Mahavira

‘I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it’s a trend.’ – Virat Kohli

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

‘A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.’ – James H. Douglas, Jr.

‘Work hard. Through determination and self-focus and discipline, you can accomplish anything.’ – Kimberly Guilfoyle

‘My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don’t have any discipline, which I don’t, you can make 10 gallons of chocolate mousse, take a spoonful and another and another, and you won’t realize you’ve eaten like five servings of it. It’s just what you do.’ – Duff Goldman

‘There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline.’ – Jose Eduardo dos Santos

‘Looking beautiful isn’t just about what you apply on your face. It’s the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don’t drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.’ – Madhuri Dixit

‘We don’t need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.’ – Marco Rubio

‘I believe that good investors are successful not because of their IQ, but because they have an investing discipline. But, what is more disciplined than a machine? A well-researched machine can make many average investors redundant, leaving behind only the really good human investors with exceptional intuition and skill.’ – Stanley Druckenmiller

‘Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.’ – Lao Tzu

‘There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.’ – Jocko Willink

‘I just keep getting better and keep learning. Keep an open mind, and live in the moment, and love what I do. Discipline myself, and hard work.’ – Glover Teixeira

‘Sports build good habits, confidence, and discipline. They make players into community leaders and teach them how to strive for a goal, handle mistakes, and cherish growth opportunities.’ – Julie Foudy

‘It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.’ – David Goggins

‘Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘There’s been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.’ – Celine Dion

‘I didn’t write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.’ – N. T. Wright

‘Discipline is creating the situation.’ – Shunryu Suzuki

‘Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.’ – Sophia Loren

‘I’ve learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.’ – Jake Gyllenhaal

‘It’s too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.’ – John Howard

‘I’d never played on a team until high school. It gave me a sense of belonging, a focus, and helped build my confidence. I liked the feeling of accomplishment and the respect. Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.’ – Howie Long

‘My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.’ – Ram Shriram

‘Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?’ – Lynn Margulis

‘One doesn’t become a soldier in a week – it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.’ – Daniel Inouye

‘It’s about discipline. It’s about following instructions. It’s about the execution of the plan. That’s what sport is.’ – Ian Millar

‘I think there’s some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.’ – Alan Rickman

‘We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.’ – Jim Rohn

‘The key to coaching is love. It’s not knowledge; it’s not discipline. If you love ’em, you can discipline them. If you love ’em, you can yell at them and laugh about it later.’ – Dabo Swinney

‘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.’ – Adam Smith

‘The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.’ – Bill Nye

‘I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered.’ – Henry Sy

‘Engineering didn’t take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Pershing Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked.’ – Colin Powell

‘As long as you have discipline, you can be a success. Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do.’ – Anthony Joshua

‘Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps.’ – R. Lee Ermey

‘Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.’ – Brian Greene

‘The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.’ – Harry Emerson Fosdick

‘Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.’ – Nipsey Hussle

‘Your billion-dollar ideas don’t show up in the middle of dramatic distraction. They show up when you have the business and personal discipline to make space for your creative mind to flourish.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks.’ – Colm Keaveney

‘Discipline is knowing what you’re supposed to do and doing it as best you can… On third down and short yardage, the Raiders don’t jump offside. That’s discipline – not a coat and tie, not a clean shave.’ – John Madden

‘Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois

‘Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.’ – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

‘When I was doing poorly at school, my father yanked me out and got me a job in a shoe factory. After three weeks, I begged him to give me another chance at doing well in school. I learned that discipline is necessary to accomplish anything in life.’ – Ivana Trump

‘I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don’t obey the rules of progression for novels. I don’t think about a particular form: I think more about fiction, let’s say a chunk of fiction.’ – Alice Munro

‘I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.’ – Jack LaLanne

‘One capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a certain kind of discipline, a certain kind of mindset.’ – Steve Ballmer

‘A country without discipline would be chaotic and unstable.’ – Nguyen Phu Trong

‘Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed – farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There’s a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor – the discipline, the call to action.’ – Camille Paglia

‘The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.’ – Bernard Baruch

‘The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.’ – Tammy Duckworth

‘Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.’ – Jonathan Winters

‘Discipline, work. Work, discipline.’ – Gustav Mahler

‘Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer.’ – Mohamed ElBaradei

‘I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life… and that’s gotten stronger as I’ve gotten older. I’ve always felt if I don’t just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to – work harder than anybody else.’ – Ryan Reynolds

‘A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.’ – Bessie Head

‘Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.’ – Tom Kite

‘Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline – like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.’ – Flea

‘While restoring a sense of fiscal discipline to Congress is a top priority, infrastructure spending is an important and necessary task of government. Our nation’s long-term debt requires us to prioritize and economize with every tax dollar.’ – Cynthia Lummis

‘Our job as a coaching staff is to mentor, to discipline and to educate young people.’ – Urban Meyer

‘The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To listen to the poor is an exercise of great discipline, but such listening surely is what is required if charity is not to become a hatred of the poor for being poor.’ – Stanley Hauerwas

‘My diabetes is such a central part of my life… it did teach me discipline… it also taught me about moderation… I’ve trained myself to be super-vigilant… because I feel better when I am in control.’ – Sonia Sotomayor

‘Not many people can say, ‘I was top 150 in the world for something,’ in any discipline.’ – Johanna Konta

‘Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.’ – Joe Paterno

‘The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It’s to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.’ – Alexa Hirschfeld

‘Family business management is a discipline that has evolved from an art into a science. The market for this line of education has been created by the growing recognition of family-run companies that shareholders are demanding greater clarity on issues ranging from succession to the management of wealth and the distribution of profits.’ – Sanjaya Baru

‘It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.’ – Charles Dickens

‘I know what hierarchy and discipline mean. Without those, we will never have order and progress.’ – Jair Bolsonaro

‘I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.’ – Alan Shepard

‘Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn’t necessary.’ – David Sylvian

‘As a former Airman First Class in the United States Air Force, like many veterans in America, my military experience played an important part in instilling in me a sense of character and discipline that has served me throughout my life.’ – Chuck Norris

‘Our school not only makes you an actor, it makes you understand who you actually are as well… it gives you discipline and punctuality. It also teaches you a way of life.’ – Anupam Kher

‘I think good work, sincerity and discipline speak for themselves.’ – Dia Mirza

‘It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.’ – Steve Winwood

‘The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.’ – Dan Rosensweig

‘My mother gave me the discipline to follow my dreams. You know: you can do what you want as long as you put your back into it. Just keep ploughing away.’ – George Clinton

‘It takes more discipline than you might imagine to think, even for thirty seconds, in the noisy, confusing, high-pressure atmosphere of a film set. But a few seconds’ thought can often prevent a serious mistake being made about something that looks good at first glance.’ – Stanley Kubrick

‘Whether fighting or spitting, my discipline is unforgiving!’ – John Cena

‘It’s very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it’s merely about combining ingredients, but that’s something you can do with your eyes closed.’ – Ferran Adria

‘Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You’ve got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it’s not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.’ – Gal Gadot

‘We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.’ – Zig Ziglar

”Dare to Discipline’ was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.’ – James Dobson

‘A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.’ – John Kasich

‘I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and determination. I had that ice in me.’ – Sugar Ray Leonard

‘The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior.’ – Gordon B. Hinckley

‘Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.’ – Jocko Willink

‘Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.’ – George Eliot

‘Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation.’ – Mark Walport

‘One needs to follow strict discipline in the life to streamline it, so it’s not whether you are in this industry/profession of an actor or an engineer or whatever you are doing it, but I think when you respect your body, when you take care of your body, I think everything falls in place.’ – Sonu Sood

‘Football helped me tremendously, and that’s why I want the sport to stay because it’s so valuable. It’s helped me be a better physician today, certainly. I’ve learned discipline. I’ve learned focus, teamwork, communication.’ – Myron Rolle

‘It’s just a matter of understanding what’s necessary and discipline yourself to do it.’ – Arthur Lydiard

‘Preparing your tactical formation is essential. Each player needs to know where he has to be, and that is why there needs to be mutual understanding: because you need absolute discipline.’ – Louis van Gaal

‘Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.’ – Dave Brubeck

‘There couldn’t be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.’ – Ricardo Montalban

‘As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid’s grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.’ – Bill O’Reilly

‘Discipline is important for everything in life.’ – Thomas Peterffy

‘If I couldn’t have discipline, if I sit up eatin’ fried chicken in bed at night, I’d just as soon be dead. I take care of myself.’ – Jim Brown

‘The continental troops have as much courage and real discipline as those that are opposed to them. They are more inured to privation, more patient than Europeans, who, on these two points, cannot be compared to them.’ – Marquis de Lafayette

‘I was drawn to bakery and pastry. It’s the same discipline you employ in dance – you take the instruction, and you keep on practicing, seeking perfection. You never achieve it, but you strive.’ – Ron Ben-Israel

‘I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else – problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.’ – Laura Linney

‘I love everything about football. You can learn so much from it, from leadership qualities to discipline. This sport involves every kind of emotion.’ – Julie Ertz

‘My daughter is the biggest gift; I’ve said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you’ve cracked it, and you’re on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline.’ – Geri Halliwell

‘It is in my nature to give the work I have all the discipline and due diligence that I am capable of.’ – Priyanka Chopra

‘I’m a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there’s a time for discipline.’ – Don Baylor

‘All those who have played with me are aware that I am very strict when it comes to discipline and punctuality.’ – Sandeep Singh

‘People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life… Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.’ – Eddie Vedder

‘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.’ – George Washington

‘We just can’t shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it’s also fun.’ – Claire Danes

‘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.’ – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

‘Religion was a part of our home life when I was growing up. I attended Catholic school. It was a good education – for the spiritual end, as well as for its discipline.’ – Bil Keane

‘Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you’re not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn’t planned or counted on.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.’ – Jocko Willink

‘Once you’re in a musical, there is a huge opportunity for that, singing and dancing, ‘Aha!’ and ‘Tada’ at the end of the numbers; but it’s a different kind of discipline you have to go through to maintain that kind of performance.’ – Alan Tudyk

‘There’s a difference between someone who’s ‘harsh’ and someone who is ‘hard.’ Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard. In order to respond to that, he had to become a hard man, with very hard rules, very hard discipline for himself, very hard days, hard work, et cetera.’ – Clarence Thomas

‘Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.’ – Lou Holtz

‘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.’ – John Dalton

‘You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.’ – Haile Gebrselassie

‘Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.’ – Ingrid Newkirk

‘Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.’ – Francois Mauriac

‘The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.’ – Bo Bennett

‘There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.’ – Bruce Rauner

‘Mental discipline and tenacity in the face of obstacles are traits that have greatly helped me in both my personal and professional journey thus far. I am also very optimistic by nature and tend to focus on the positive and remain hopeful when faced with adversity.’ – Priyamvada Natarajan

‘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.’ – Charles Horton Cooley

‘Computing should be taught as a rigorous – but fun – discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn’t have to be boring.’ – Geoff Mulgan

‘Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.’ – Mike Ditka

‘Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.’ – Lal Bahadur Shastri

‘It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.’ – Alan Perlis

‘I’m a grazer by nature – fruit, nuts – but I try to discipline myself and sit down for regular meals when the girls are around, as I want to instil good habits in them.’ – Darcey Bussell

‘I so admire the discipline, the work ethic, and the sacrifices fighters make to master all aspects of mixed martial arts.’ – Tami Hoag

‘I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.’ – James Truslow Adams

‘The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you’re asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.’ – Penelope Cruz

‘What I’ve always loved about gymnastics and one of the many reasons I love watching it now is the combination of skill and freedom it has – the discipline and expression – letting you dance.’ – Gwendoline Christie

‘We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.’ – Vidal Sassoon

‘Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn’t parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.’ – Gordon Neufeld

‘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.’ – Jasmine Guy

‘You have to discipline your children, or they won’t respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.’ – Phil Robertson

‘It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.’ – Kamisese Mara

‘It’s absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.’ – Jim Rohn

‘We work a lot, and we have a lot of discipline because we are really tired that people know Colombia as a violent country. We just want to change that face of the country, and the music that we’re doing is the music that people want, that people love.’ – Maluma

‘No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline – flexibility, fitness, knowledge. And you have to do it with a big smile on your face. Also, I once performed in front of 10,000 screaming women. I tell you something, I’d rather do that than kick a ball around in front of a few men.’ – Magnus Scheving

‘It takes some discipline and hard work, but relying on credit when things go wrong is a trap.’ – Dave Ramsey

‘Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say ‘first alarm clock’ because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.’ – Jocko Willink

‘I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.’ – William Brewster

‘The truth is, gymnastics is a beautiful sport that has allowed me to grow and learn invaluable life lessons: sacrifice, dedication, discipline. Eventually, it led me to my voice.’ – Katelyn Ohashi

‘My father was a very tough guy with me and my brothers. He wanted to teach us a lot of discipline and life philosophy. As I became more interested in martial arts, he started teaching a lot of fighting philosophy and karate philosophy. While he was a tough father, he also knew when to be sweet and show a softer side.’ – Lyoto Machida

‘Do Christians sin? Yes, absolutely. But can Christians live in a state of sin without discipline and without being brought back in obedience to their Father? Absolutely not.’ – Paul Washer

‘A number of party… members lack proper discipline, are plagued by individualism, selfishness and opportunism. This gives rise to some individuals’ words not matching their deeds, not adhering to party rules and regulations and having no proper mechanisms for disciplining those who make mistakes.’ – Nguyen Phu Trong

‘Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.’ – Karen Salmansohn

‘The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord’s discipline – whether nations, cities, or individuals – suffer devastating consequences.’ – Charles Stanley

‘The main thing about Bruce Lee is that, he was a little guy. And you know, his quickness, his aggressiveness, his explosive power, you have to be a great athlete to have all these, his body, his look, you know, all these things have to do with discipline and structure. He was able to go against the biggest guy, regardless of who he was.’ – Evander Holyfield

‘I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, ‘Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?’ You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.’ – Matthew McConaughey

‘I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn’t anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.’ – Tom Hardy

‘I’m a time person. It’s the one discipline I manage.’ – Jim Harrison

‘Democracy is liberty – a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.’ – Chiang Kai-shek

‘Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves.’ – Anne-Marie Slaughter

‘Meditation had never been tried before in a medical center, so we had no idea whether mainstream Americans would accept a clinic whose foundation was intensive training in meditative discipline.’ – Jon Kabat-Zinn

‘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.’ – Tryon Edwards

‘I played sports. The acting thing was just a direct blessing from the Lord, because I lost my discipline to play sports, and I had this really cool professor grab me and kind of take me under his wing, and the ball just started rolling. Another professor introduced me to my first agent, and the next thing you know, I got to start doing films.’ – Omar Benson Miller

‘The soap opera was so long ago – the thing about soap operas, and there’s something to be said for doing it, but you do a script a day. I don’t want to say it’s a training ground; it really isn’t, but what it does teach you is discipline.’ – Frank Grillo

‘I believe in discipline, so I’m not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I’m not human.’ – John Galliano

‘I like structure, and I like discipline and people doing the right thing.’ – Mark Henry

‘The reason we have so much talent in Silicon Valley building and investing in for-profit technology companies is that markets richly reward successful ideas, no matter who invents them. But to remain competitive in a free market, companies must exercise discipline to meet quantitative goals and eventually become cashflow positive.’ – Joe Lonsdale

‘The best do sweat the small stuff. They get the seemingly insignificant details right. They have the discipline to shine at the baby things which they get gives birth to spectacular giant things.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there’s not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.’ – Michael J. Fox

‘At times, you are mentally but not physically prepared; at times, you are physically but not mentally prepared. I would be lying if I said it doesn’t affect your performance. But the sooner you get over it, the better. So you discipline yourself. That is why fitness counts.’ – Mohammad Azharuddin

‘Discipline yourself. Be conscious of what you think, and what you like. What gets you mad? What gets you in your feelings? Figure that stuff out and take control of it so nobody else can control you.’ – Tee Grizzley

‘I just lacked discipline over a period of time. I got up to 178 or 179, but it wasn’t exactly lean, you know. I was starting to feel kind of fat. Well, I was fat.’ – Dave Schultz

‘It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.’ – Miguel de Cervantes

‘Discipline? I don’t know the meaning of the word.’ – Liam Gallagher

‘We often assume that all teachers within a discipline address the same curriculum. This isn’t always the case. We frequently find gaps between goals and what is actually taught, and these gaps can have a lasting impact on a child’s learning.’ – Heidi Hayes Jacobs

‘In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.’ – Bernard Baruch

‘I was on a path that could’ve really led to disaster, and the one thing for me that really kept me focused and gave me something to believe in and a sense of self-worth and a discipline was music.’ – Flea

‘Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.’ – Esther Williams

‘A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.’ – Jacqueline Bisset

‘I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.’ – Tom Glazer

‘Although most executives pay lip service to the idea of hiring for cultural fit, few have the courage or discipline to make it the primary criteria for bringing someone into the company.’ – Patrick Lencioni

‘I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn’t stop cutting hair. That’s why I think I have such discipline in my job because I’ve always been very responsible.’ – Yandel

‘It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.’ – Clint Eastwood

‘As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s.’ – Robert Darnton

‘When families break down, you have a lot of repercussion from that, from poverty to crime to lack of discipline.’ – Tony Evans

‘Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It’s just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.’ – Claire Danes

‘When you’re a little kid, growing up, most of us know what’s right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.’ – Robert Knepper

‘Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.’ – Jocko Willink

‘Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.’ – Jahangir Khan

‘I must discipline myself. I must be imaginative and create plots, knit motives, probe dialogue – rather than merely trying to record descriptions and sensations. The latter is pointless, without purpose, unless it is later to be synthesized into a story. The latter is also a rather pronounced symptom of an oversensitive and unproductive ego.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company.’ – Indra Nooyi

‘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.’ – Daisy Fuentes

‘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.’ – George W. Bush

‘There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective but she is not over-protective – that is really important. She is tolerant, but she can impose discipline. She is affectionate. She plays. And the most important of all: she is supportive.’ – Jane Goodall

‘Where once Lego offered a whimsical form of escapism into the world of the subconscious, encouraging creativity and imagination, it’s transformed into a rigid ‘box ticking’ discipline where children are encouraged to build by conformity.’ – Ben Fogle

‘Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.’ – Michel Foucault

‘My passion is from my mom. She was passionate about leaving Germany and coming to America and making a life for her and her family. My father – discipline, a chain of command, it works this way.’ – Herm Edwards

‘And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.’ – Jason Statham

‘As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his mathematical capacity, so may a man be born with certain faculties within him, faculties belonging to the soul, which he can develop by training and by discipline.’ – Annie Besant

‘We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.’ – Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

‘Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.’ – Washington Irving

‘The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.’ – Hannes Alfven

‘I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.’ – Pope Francis

‘I don’t actually have a lot of discipline. I’ve worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.’ – Norah Jones

‘I’ve led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Discipline is not consistency, and the reason why I say that is – like, for an example, making prayer five times a day, that establishes routine and consistency. That I can do. And having certain fundamental consistencies in business, can do. But time management, outside of that, that’s where that’s a challenge.’ – Ali Shaheed Muhammad

‘Enjoy the fashions, read the good articles, and when you feel threatened, turn your mental gaze inward, but keep your eyes on the road, or you won’t know where you are going. Have a practice or discipline that lets you be in touch with your inner self, your soul.’ – Rebecca Pidgeon

‘I was pretty rubbish when I first started dancing. I didn’t understand the discipline of working on one step over and over again. If you look at it from the outside, you’d think, ‘Why would anybody want to do that?’ But you just want to get it perfect. It is that constant inner striving that you fall in love with.’ – Darcey Bussell

‘The rigor and discipline we use in running our business is key to consistently executing our growth strategy. And we systematically applied the same discipline to our investments, including acquisitions.’ – Pierre Nanterme

‘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.’ – Venerable Bede

‘Even without tactical discipline, what is important for a team is having players with maturity and a sense of responsibility.’ – Dani Alves

‘My parents’ convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of ’90s grunge – if you got it now, you would think it was the ‘Singles’ soundtrack.’ – Adam Pally

‘The school-to-prison pipeline – the disproportionality that exists in handing out school discipline in schools to Black and Brown students for simple infractions – pushes kids out of classrooms and into our ever-growing system of mass incarceration.’ – Jamaal Bowman

‘You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it.’ – Mike Ditka

‘That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.’ – Sam Altman

‘While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.’ – Jocko Willink

‘Writing for Mills and Boon taught me a lot of discipline. You have to produce books in a short time scale and four a year, and it teaches you a lot.’ – Penny Jordan

‘Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.’ – M. Scott Peck

‘I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.’ – Edith Sitwell

‘In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.’ – Mahesh Babu

‘For me, it was always, OK, I had the discipline in Scouting.’ – Josh Hart

‘One of the great lessons I’ve learned in athletics is that you’ve got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you’ve got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.’ – Bob Richards

‘In college, you become truly independent; your discipline is honed. It has to be there for your studies. It helped make me who I am, and it increased my determination to be the best I could be.’ – Katrina Adams

‘Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘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.’ – Mike Ditka

‘The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.’ – Nipsey Hussle

‘My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.’ – Barry Sanders

‘I wrestled when I was a kid. That started me off with the discipline, because making weight was my responsibility. It is a team sport, but it is also a solo sport.’ – Frank Grillo

‘The kids say golf taught them this and that. I get it with the military: A guy joins the military because he needs discipline and has to find himself. But don’t tell me, ‘Golf helps you find yourself.’ I’ve been playing my whole life, and I’m still looking for myself.’ – Lewis Black

‘Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘Discipline is not a nasty word.’ – Pat Riley

‘Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.’ – Barbara W. Tuchman

‘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.’ – Jean Giraudoux

‘Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.’ – Henry Moore

‘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.’ – John McCain

‘I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.’ – Ted Stevens

‘The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.’ – Frederick William Robertson

‘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.’ – Debbie Stabenow

‘Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.’ – Yahya Jammeh

‘Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.’ – Barbara Ann Scott

‘The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipline.’ – Jerome Hines

‘On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.’ – Suzanne Farrell

‘It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.’ – Suzanne Vega

‘The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.’ – Theodor W. Adorno

‘From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.’ – Dirk Benedict

‘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.’ – Frank Luntz

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

‘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.’ – Irving Babbitt

‘If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.’ – Irving Babbitt

‘The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.’ – Georg Solti

‘This marched was planned to be non violent and non confrontational, and gladly it stayed that way. What really impressed me was the self discipline of the Black Block.’ – John Blair

‘I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.’ – Ralph Allen

‘Perfect retention. I don’t think I could do that-I’ve never disciplined myself to do it. I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.’ – George Shearing

‘In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.’ – Mike Johanns

‘More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.’ – Paul D. Boyer

‘My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn’t merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit.’ – George Woodcock

‘I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.’ – Anthony Braxton

‘I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.’ – Anthony Braxton

‘Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It’s fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.’ – Michelle Trachtenberg

‘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?’ – Patricia Ireland

‘And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.’ – Patricia Ireland

‘My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.’ – Mary Garden

‘For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline.’ – Robert Vaughn

‘I’m challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.’ – Josh Lucas

‘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.’ – Blythe Danner

‘The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.’ – Hans Frank

‘Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.’ – Paul Weyrich

‘One of our problems is our sense of discipline – dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.’ – Siobhan Davies

‘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.’ – Blair Underwood

‘When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that’s all I want to do with my life and she said if you’re serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.’ – Blair Underwood

‘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.’ – Russell Banks

‘My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.’ – Herbert Read

‘Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution – a chaotic revolution – with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.’ – Godfried Danneels

‘All of those art-based fields are similar in that they’re all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.’ – Alicia Witt

‘They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.’ – Kelly Preston

‘Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.’ – Julia Ward Howe

‘I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.’ – Sanford I. Weill

‘I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn’t want to do.’ – Edward James Olmos

‘Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don’t want to do them.’ – Edward James Olmos

‘Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.’ – James Young

‘We call the Creator father, because we rely upon Him to protect us, guide us, feed us, keep us warm, to discipline us and all those things. I try to take my cue from the Creator, with regard to my children.’ – Terrence Howard

‘I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It’s a very important part of my personal discipline.’ – Bob Graham

‘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.’ – Armstrong Williams

‘It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands out of the cookie jar of Social Security. Now to stop this I propose that in the future that Congress cannot get its hands on the money in the first place.’ – Jeff Miller

‘I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I’m afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.’ – Geddy Lee

‘There’s a discipline. When you take someone’s portrait, you don’t have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that’s the image that you took.’ – Matthew Modine

‘I’m not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.’ – Ritchie Blackmore

‘I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.’ – John Woolman

‘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.’ – Larry Holmes

‘There’s such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn’t appropriate another’s inventions.’ – Ethel Merman

‘The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I’m not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.’ – Bob Newhart

‘My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father’s estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein.’ – Margaret Cavendish

‘There can, therefore, be no doubt that Presbyterians do carry out the principle that Church power vests in the Church itself, and that the people have a right to a substantive part in its discipline and government.’ – Charles Hodge

‘And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.’ – Jim Cantalupo

‘And so if your competitors aren’t growing, if there isn’t a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.’ – Jim Cantalupo

‘When you’re doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they’re not on the same page.’ – Jim Cantalupo

‘You have got to have discipline and focus – on the customer and how you run the business.’ – Jim Cantalupo

‘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.’ – Jim Cantalupo

‘However, lifestyle intervention requires discipline with a tangible end result that is within reach. It requires personal resolve, a lifelong commitment.’ – Tim Holden

‘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.’ – Hal Holbrook

‘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.’ – Bill Bruford

‘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.’ – Philippe Perrin

‘In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.’ – Mark Foley

‘At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.’ – Norman Lamm

‘I’m not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.’ – Enya

‘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.’ – Georg Brandes

‘I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14… I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.’ – John Irving

‘The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.’ – Goldwin Smith

‘I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don’t want to do.’ – Wynton Marsalis

‘I’ve written what and when I want to. It’s been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.’ – Joan Armatrading

‘I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I’m not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.’ – Bjork

‘Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you’re looking to sell something.’ – Ann Patchett

‘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.’ – Ishmael Reed

‘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.’ – Aleister Crowley

‘Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.’ – Claude Adrien Helvetius

‘The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don’t make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.’ – Richard M. Daley

‘To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that’s why I just make up crap.’ – Colin Mochrie

‘I hate committing myself to anything. It’s probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I’m probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.’ – Cameron Diaz

‘The American people know what’s necessary to get this economy moving again. It’s fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.’ – Mike Pence

‘You’ve got to either say you’re going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can’t out of one side of your mouth say, ‘Yes, we’re for tax cuts, we’re for spending discipline, and we’re for bringing down the debt.” – Harold Ford, Jr.

‘I really appreciate the sport background because the structure and the discipline that that gives a person is incredible, and it just carries with you wherever you go.’ – Estella Warren

‘I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.’ – Walter Isaacson

‘I eat everything, that’s a problem. I don’t have discipline. My favorite dish is the Caribbean. Meat, rice, lots of grains. But I do like to do exercises. Lately, I’ve been having capoeira classes and lots of cardiovascular exercises, such as jogging and cycling.’ – Ricky Martin

‘I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it’s very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions.’ – Cheryl Ladd

‘Gymnastics taught me everything – life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.’ – Shawn Johnson

‘I haven’t got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don’t like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day.’ – Jimmy Nail

‘I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I’m going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It’s a kind of discipline.’ – Amy Ray

‘I kind of peak at how far I can push my body, and then I run out of determination for the habit and start easing off. It’s really just a lack of focus and discipline.’ – Sean Astin

‘If you say you want to automate cars and save people’s lives, the skills you need for that aren’t taught in any particular discipline. I know – I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.’ – Larry Page

‘I don’t have a lot of discipline.’ – Katherine Heigl

‘I’m terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I’m terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I’m terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But, when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time – I hate unprofessionalism.’ – Katherine Heigl

‘The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.’ – Jeffrey Archer

‘I’ve always admired Cate Blanchett and the roles she chooses. I think she’s got an incredible discipline in a way, with choosing roles that are going to help her grow and bring something interesting to the world.’ – Gemma Ward

‘I think I’d be a great mom, honestly. I don’t think I’ll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.’ – Queen Latifah

‘Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, ‘Oh, baby,’ if there’s a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.’ – Etta James

‘In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.’ – William Baldwin

‘By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there’s more news that’s falling into books.’ – Ron Suskind

‘Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.’ – Ron Ben-Israel

‘I think it goes hand in hand because if you discipline yourself on the floor, as you become an older player or a more seasoned individual, it adds structure in your life.’ – Dominique Wilkins

‘If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.’ – Clint Eastwood

‘Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.’ – John Sununu

‘I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.’ – Steve Martin

‘I fall into that nebulous, quote-unquote, normal American woman size that legions of fashion stylists detest. For the record, I’m a size 8 – this week, anyway. Many stylists hate that size because I think to them, it shows that I lack the discipline to be an ascetic; or the confident, sassy abandon to be a total fatty hedonist.’ – Mindy Kaling

‘I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it’s a good thing to have.’ – Patti Smith

‘Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I’m sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that’s important, that’s what leadership’s all about.’ – Iain Duncan Smith

‘Coming over to Europe you can always put on weight really easily because you are not doing your normal routine at home. It is just a bit more discipline and not eating breads and pastas which are my favourite foods in the entire world.’ – Sally Pearson

‘I was an OK boxer, I wasn’t great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.’ – Liam Neeson

‘I think that France has not made it clear enough recently to our German friends how important it is to introduce euro bonds as a tool against speculation. And how the necessary budget discipline needs to be accompanied by growth.’ – Francois Hollande

‘I don’t think the Bonzo Dog could have evolved in America, nor could the old Nice: because of their musical discipline. This is one thing that British groups do have, a sort of discipline. Sometimes it can get a bit soulless, but on the whole I think it’s preferable to the American alternative.’ – Jon Lord

‘Growth in any individual European country has to be the result of policies for growth pursued in that country consistent with budgetary discipline.’ – Mario Monti

‘First of all, I don’t like to speak about austerity. I’d prefer to speak of fiscal discipline. Fiscal discipline, in the end, amounts to austerity if it is not accompanied by other policies.’ – Mario Monti

‘The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job.’ – Drew Carey

‘The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don’t have the discipline to write what we would term as critique – it’s really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That’s my view.’ – Ang Lee

‘As for discipline and rules, I confess, I’ve never been good with either.’ – Sylvia Day

‘I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.’ – Larry Hagman

‘I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.’ – Karl Lagerfeld

‘I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it’s going well or not going well.’ – David Duchovny

‘What is fashion? It’s discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.’ – Manolo Blahnik

‘Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.’ – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

‘I accomplished what I set out to do, but I lost my discipline and my career.’ – Pete Maravich

‘Many people don’t understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz… And that is really the idea of democracy – freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don’t just get out there and do anything you want.’ – Dave Brubeck

‘In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.’ – Karen Armstrong

‘I hated school, didn’t like the discipline.’ – Gary Gygax

‘My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It’s not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they’ve lost their usefulness.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert

‘Mine is just a simple old human story – of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert

‘I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and ‘Six Feet Under’ wasn’t a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn’t do 22. I don’t know how people do that. I really don’t. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it’s quite a discipline.’ – Frances Conroy

‘Having a think about whether you can afford ‘this’ or ‘that’ is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.’ – Cameron Mackintosh

‘There’s also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I’m doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.’ – P. J. Harvey

‘Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.’ – Ray Comfort

‘At the moment, I’m afraid that the discipline system doesn’t give teachers the support that they need. One thing that I’ve been struck by is that the number of violent assaults on teachers increased last year. We need to be clear that teachers have the power they need in order to impose discipline.’ – Michael Gove

‘When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they’d most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.’ – Michael Gove

‘I rallied all the youth around me, all the people who liked Compa, but felt like it was dying, going away, being replaced with Zouk. So it became a movement. So, through the years, I’ve played my music with dedication, discipline and originality, and controversy also.’ – Michel Martelly

‘You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.’ – Nancy Grace

‘I love chicken fingers, I love French fries. I love desserts. I’m not just into dessert or just into savoury food. I love it all. I’m a pig. I love food. So it takes a lot of discipline to eat healthy.’ – Holly Madison

‘I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I’d be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn’t good at science. I didn’t have the discipline for it.’ – Jonah Lehrer

‘I’ve had to learn and discipline myself that I’m much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It’s just that simple.’ – Nick Offerman

‘A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I’d be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.’ – Louise Penny

‘When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is – and it’s because comic acting isn’t taken seriously enough. It’s a discipline. You know instantly – either you’re funny and getting the laughs, or you’re not.’ – Chris O’Dowd

”Kraken’ is a very undisciplined book. That’s a gamble. If it doesn’t come off, it’s disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can’t get the other way, and vice versa.’ – China Mieville

‘Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline.’ – Kathy Freston

‘You don’t need to stick to tough rules or overnight changes; you need not rely on hardcore discipline that makes you hate your life. You need only focus on progress, not perfection. Lean in to the process of losing weight, and it will happen easily.’ – Kathy Freston

‘I have discipline; I look after my voice.’ – Julio Iglesias

‘Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a blank computer screen every day and then to make it come alive with characters and with plot is incredibly exciting and at the same time terrifying and frustrating, and sometimes it comes easy and sometimes it comes really hard.’ – Ricky Schroder

‘I’m a military kid, both parents in the military – Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.’ – Robert Griffin III

‘Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.’ – Bill Keller

‘In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.’ – Graham Taylor

‘I haven’t got a writer’s discipline.’ – Jim Broadbent

‘European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that’s why we have to have quite hard discipline.’ – Tarja Halonen

‘Mind you, I’ve always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.’ – Julie Burchill

‘In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.’ – Linda Ronstadt

‘The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.’ – Ben Vereen

‘If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be.’ – Lara Stone

‘My mom’s discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn’t change a thing.’ – will.i.am

‘The greatness of Mac Rebennack, alias, Dr. John, also known as John Crieux, rests on his command of the musical use of idiomatic expression. Not a technically well-endowed singer, nor a great songwriter, he leaves his mark through the discipline and control he exerts over all that he touches.’ – Jon Landau

‘Well I think everything up to this point that I’ve been exposed to in my life has had an influence on me in some way, shape, or form even if I’m not conscious of it. So I definitely think that my studies in wu-shu, kung-fu, karate, kenpo, taikwando, all of that stuff certainly has an affect. I don’t think I follow any discipline traditionally.’ – Criss Angel

‘I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they’re my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.’ – John Cena

‘Kids have been let down by adults – we’ve tried to give them too much, we’ve tried not to impose discipline. We’ve tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we’ve taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.’ – Daley Thompson

‘I’d like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It’s been my private discipline.’ – Alice Sebold

‘When I go and work with people, I never say, ‘Your dog is changed for the rest of its life.’ It’s like a diet. You’ve got to maintain a discipline and ritual in your life to keep a certain figure.’ – Cesar Millan

‘Many dogs grow up without rules or boundaries. They need exercise, discipline and affection in that order.’ – Cesar Millan

‘Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it’s a good starting place for me.’ – Alan Lightman

‘Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork – all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.’ – Darell Hammond

‘I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It’s a discipline. So that’s definitely different. It’s part of maturing as a person and as a professional.’ – Donald Miller

‘I was a waitress for nine years, which I don’t regret at all. It taught me about discipline. I was always writing; it took a long time to make a career of it.’ – Eve Ensler

‘The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable.’ – Mark Helprin

‘For most governors, we find the United States Senate or the United States Congress very frustrating at the slow pace in which they act. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of discipline and organization to what they do.’ – Dave Heineman

‘I believe Nebraskans appreciate the fiscal discipline I’ve brought to state government, balancing the budget without raising taxes and prioritizing education funding.’ – Dave Heineman

‘Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.’ – Pearl Cleage

‘For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves.’ – Michel Onfray

‘Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.’ – Neil Postman

‘You can do things in every part of the world. You can do things in every discipline. You can do large things, you can do small things. But it takes a while to figure out what you actually want to do. And it changes. As you change your interests and desires in philanthropy change, I think you have to be open to that change.’ – Marc Benioff

‘I think the truth is, we are all racist, really, when it comes down to it. I think all of us have to check ourselves from time to time, and say, ‘Look, that sort of attitude isn’t good enough.’ It takes discipline to keep our prejudices out.’ – Peter Hollingworth

‘I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn’t proper to display certain very private emotions in public.’ – Carolina Herrera

‘Growing up, there wasn’t much emphasis on being nice or naughty. As a family, there wasn’t much discipline. It was more relaxed at home, which I’m grateful for.’ – Isla Fisher

‘Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that’s what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.’ – Keri Russell

‘I’m a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.’ – Naomi Benaron

‘I believe in the will. I believe in discipline. I believe in the organization. I believe in the rigor that gives us work. I believe in love as an engine of all things. I believe in the light. I believe in God. I believe in kindness.’ – Edgar Ramirez

‘Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.’ – Eli Broad

‘Just as an individual’s ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations.’ – Peter Blair Henry

‘While many in the social enterprise space often qualify themselves as ‘non-profit,’ these organizations should instead treat themselves as ‘for-purpose.’ These organizations should focus on their mission to create social good, while still treating themselves with the same commitment to rigor and discipline as the best for-profits.’ – Adam Braun

‘Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.’ – Nathan Myhrvold

‘I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don’t have the discipline to go to the gym.’ – Penelope Cruz

‘Without the discipline of having a wife to come home to, you end up just working all the time.’ – Anthony Goldbloom

‘I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.’ – Bernie Mac

‘Sport has given me drive and discipline. It also taught me to remain humble.’ – Charlene, Princess of Monaco

‘To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it’s a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write – but only for about ten minutes.’ – Roseanne Barr

‘I think it’s very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.’ – Alan Ball

‘I don’t go out drinking and stuff like that. My friends say ‘Just have one drink, JD.’ I say ‘What’s the point?’ I’ll go to a club and have a Red Bull, get my buzz. And the next day I feel cool. It’s discipline, not just with drinking but a lot of things in life. You’ve just got to look at the bigger picture.’ – Jermain Defoe

‘The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold.’ – Francis Fukuyama

‘There wasn’t a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.’ – Alfie Allen

‘I know there are actors we all want to beat up a little. I think it’s important to do whatever it takes, and whatever it takes sometimes involves some physical or mental discipline. There’s a lot at stake.’ – Ryan Reynolds

‘Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.’ – Brian Reynolds Myers

‘For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.’ – Henry Paulson

‘Donors, like voters, increasingly expect candidates to exercise fiscal discipline.’ – Mark McKinnon

‘Writing is a discipline: it’s almost all about holding back.’ – Rachel Cusk

‘Market timing, by the way, is a tag some buy-and-hold investors use to put down anything that involves using your brain. These are the same people who like to watch the locomotive coming and get run down in the name of discipline.’ – Jeremy Grantham

‘In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.’ – Donatella Versace

‘I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it’s humor, sometimes it’s listening.’ – Melissa Etheridge

‘Successful creative adults seem to combine the wide-ranging exploration and openness we see in children with the focus and discipline we see in adults.’ – Alison Gopnik

‘I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.’ – Anthony Bourdain

‘Every night, you fight for that standing ovation at the end of the night. And if you do something wrong, the domino effect is chaotic. And you must not allow yourself to make mistakes whatsoever. So in that case, theater, it’s fascinating because of the discipline that you need.’ – Ricky Martin

‘Everything is complicated about using concrete – the discipline and dedication necessary to make consistent batches, understanding exactly how the formwork will be laid, what the timing is for the pours, how you keep it clean and neat to achieve a fine quality.’ – Annabelle Selldorf

‘Honestly, I’m blessed with good genes and a good sense of discipline – I eat whatever I want, but I eat very controlled portions and stop when I’m full.’ – Alice Greczyn

‘Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance… everything is a physical embodiment. But the discipline is the same approach. You have to take both things seriously; nothing well-crafted is by mistake.’ – Amanda Schull

‘Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don’t mean to sound like an intellectual here!’ – John Lydon

‘For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline – biology – to the design table. It’s not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.’ – Janine Benyus

‘I’m going to be a strict mum. I know that love is the most important thing – you’ve got to have lots of kisses and cuddles – but you also need to mix it with discipline or you’ll be in a heap of trouble.’ – Jill Scott

‘I wasn’t a bad kid. My dad left when I was young, so I didn’t have much discipline, not that I’m making excuses. I was always out and about and had a good time as a kid, so I’ve done alright.’ – Danny Dyer

‘Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.’ – Moshe Safdie

‘I’m tremendously optimistic about the future of my discipline, yet understanding the brain is so difficult that we neuroscientists need help.’ – Sebastian Seung

‘Diabetes taught me discipline.’ – Sonia Sotomayor

‘If I wasn’t acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics.’ – Chris Hardwick

‘For comedians, we’re all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.’ – Natasha Leggero

‘In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.’ – Nick Frost

‘I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty years old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could.’ – Peter DeLuise

‘Parents walk a fine line between discipline and grace – values have to hold even when circumstances change or call for compromise or compassion. It’s the ultimate challenge to be both firm and fluid, soft and strong, yielding yet rock solid.’ – Kristin Armstrong

‘I won’t say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.’ – Karisma Kapoor

‘I don’t think I have discipline when it comes to anything.’ – Brian K. Vaughan

‘People can say whatever they want about the sport of bodybuilding, but to get prepared to do a contest or even think about doing a contest, or even to get into decent shape, it requires a certain amount of discipline, and it comes from taking a new year’s resolution to a lifestyle.’ – John Cena

‘Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they’re doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.’ – Tamer Hassan

‘It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.’ – Barbara Kingsolver

‘Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.’ – Barbara Kingsolver

‘I’m just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don’t want him to feel too entitled.’ – Julian Casablancas

‘I’ve never been in a business where safety performance was excellent and the business performance was not, so they go hand in hand, and for me, safety performance is an indication of discipline, of focus and of how joined up an organisation is.’ – Cynthia Carroll

‘I’ve always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.’ – Salman Rushdie

‘I don’t do anything the same every day. Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.’ – Jonathan Winters

‘I’m really grateful for my dancers’ discipline.’ – Teri Garr

‘Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.’ – Umberto Eco

‘God tells me that I need to provide for my family, discipline and teach my children, and love my wife as Christ loves the church. If I don’t do that, I’m being unfaithful and sinful.’ – Kevin DeYoung

‘In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.’ – Daniel Goleman

‘I told Miss Kay we need to make sure our children don’t turn out like I turned out, so they were raised up around biblical instruction. That mixed with discipline – the discipline code, I call it. They just had a lifestyle of seeing their parents do good things.’ – Phil Robertson

‘I can’t read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can’t sit still at any instrument.’ – Suzanne Farrell

‘I’ll have periods when I write and periods when I don’t. But you don’t want it to become a discipline, really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore, and that’s no good. To make art you need to be inspired.’ – Greg Lake

‘Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company that way. It does not help the creative process.’ – Zhang Xin

‘I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn’t have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, ‘Hey, here’s the key. Here’s the key to understanding life and all its forms.” – Tom Wolfe

‘There isn’t any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist.’ – Tom Hanks

‘Nothing is a hobby – each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has ‘minor works’ that they do, but I don’t think I have any ‘minor disciplines.” – Patti Smith

‘I don’t stay in one discipline because it’s more lucrative than another. In fact, the most successful thing I ever did was ‘Just Kids,’ for which I had absolutely no expectations.’ – Patti Smith

‘In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.’ – Donatella Versace

‘People ask me what’s the most important function when you’re starting an organization or setting up the kind of culture and values that are going to endure. The discipline I believe so strongly in is H.R., and its the last discipline that gets funded.’ – Howard Schultz

‘Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who’s had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil.’ – Joan Collins

‘What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyone’s ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.’ – Ashwin Sanghi

‘Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers – economies are too complex.’ – Adam Davidson

‘I watched my parents. My dad worked nights, and I was aware of how much he was doing for us. My mom was a Tupperware lady and also worked at the school. I always felt that I couldn’t let them down. And I had a natural discipline from early on. I was always training for something.’ – Jennifer Lopez

‘Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.’ – Tori Amos

‘Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.’ – Mike Myers

‘To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.’ – John Madden

‘Everyone has a talent. It’s simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.’ – Twyla Tharp

‘I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.’ – Lady Gaga

‘My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.’ – Lincoln Steffens

‘No production of high ideological and artistic value can evolve out of a creative group whose members are not united ideologically and in which discipline and order have not been established.’ – Kim Jong Il

‘I love ballet, and it’s a little boring for me to go to the gym because I’m used to the dancing discipline – it’s really hard but much more fun.’ – Penelope Cruz

‘I learned in my Ph.D. the discipline I needed to be successful. Most boxers are not that disciplined. They have talent, but the self-organization – the ability to schedule yourself and your priorities – is lacking. My studies were about the control of training on both the psychological and the physical side.’ – Wladimir Klitschko

‘The thing about dancing – what it taught me all those years – is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don’t really want to do.’ – Madonna Ciccone

‘I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.’ – Jonathan Kozol

‘Environmentalism isn’t a discipline or specialty. It’s a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don’t think ‘In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.” – David Suzuki

‘I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to keep the household down or maintain my father’s discipline, my dad, I’m so much like my father too. My father was so introverted, quiet, shy, nice. I got attributes from my father and mother.’ – Sugar Ray Leonard

‘Without boxing, because of my neighborhoods, who knows what would have happened to me. It was always about following the leader. And I definitely was not a leader. Boxing gave me discipline; a sense of self. It made me more outspoken. It gave me more confidence.’ – Sugar Ray Leonard

‘If people think I’m angry, I don’t want to burst anybody’s bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it’s not really anger; it’s discipline.’ – Grace Jones

‘Modelling, it’s being an artist as well. It’s just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.’ – Jessica White

‘I’ve always been fascinated by the military, the discipline they have and the sacrifices they make to defend the country. It’s something I’ve always been interested in.’ – Troy Polamalu

‘Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.’ – John Boyle O’Reilly

‘My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment – it is much more exposed.’ – Laura Mvula

‘I’m very interested in writing – it just takes so much discipline, whether it’s short stories or novels.’ – Conor Oberst

‘There is certainly some predisposition to wellbeing, based on the research I’ve looked at. There are people who have a lot more natural discipline. But for most of us, it takes a lot more in terms of social expectations, where, say, we tell people we’re going to run a 5K.’ – Tom Rath

‘In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline – on the course, at any rate. That discipline was the source of his power.’ – Sarah Churchwell

‘Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids, and I can get into the mind of a kid. In my brain, I consider myself the ultimate video game player. The ultimate snack maker.’ – J. B. Smoove

‘I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.’ – Daniel Alarcon

‘I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline.’ – Idina Menzel

‘It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no one discipline can answer questions of origins alone.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Young people are not immune to following God’s commands concerning discipline.’ – Monica Johnson

‘I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It’s a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.’ – Toni Servillo

‘Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.’ – L. Lionel Kendrick

‘One of the most difficult parental challenges is to appropriately discipline children. Child rearing is so individualistic. Every child is different and unique. What works with one may not work with another.’ – James E. Faust

‘We have little choice but to place a certain level of trust in scientists – even when it comes to the model-driven speculative discipline of climate change. And, need it be said, most scientists take great care in being honest, principled and precise.’ – David Harsanyi

‘I’d say we are traditionalist. We are heavy on discipline and relatively strict and structured. But we also make sure our children feel not just physically safe but emotionally safe, like they can come to us with anything.’ – Mona Sutphen

‘Healthy competition places discipline on the market and should focus providers on providing the best service at a lower cost.’ – Julius Genachowski

‘I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.’ – Virat Kohli

‘Size zero doesn’t make you happy, and I’m not sure I have the discipline for Hollywood. I’m too much of a fan of chocolate and crisps.’ – Honeysuckle Weeks

‘The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.’ – Shashi Tharoor

‘Discipline has been a key factor to my success.’ – Rohan Bopanna

‘Most of us are not pure self-starters; most people need role models, they need coaches, they need exemplars, they maybe need some discipline or some rewards. We need to be motivated.’ – Tyler Cowen

‘Language is too complex for a computer to understand. It’s not going to be able to make sense of what people are saying en masse. We need a new type of discipline that puts together computer scientists and social scientists, who can add context to the situation.’ – Noreena Hertz

‘The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts – understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud. Seeing Jewish history through artifacts, architecture and images is still a young but spectacularly flourishing discipline that’s changing the whole story.’ – Simon Schama

‘Often we’d secretly like to do the very things we discipline ourselves against. Isn’t that true? Well, here in the movies I can be as mean, as wicked as I want to – and all without hurting anybody.’ – Claude Rains

‘I don’t mind sacrifice. I don’t mind discipline. But a good coach allows people to blossom. I’ve seen that. I didn’t have it.’ – Dominique Moceanu

‘To become the kind of person you want to become, you’ve got to have discipline. It’s easier to keep to your standards 100 percent of the time versus 98 percent of the time.’ – Clayton M. Christensen

‘In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there’s no training, no discipline.’ – Peter O’Toole

‘I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did ‘Go,’ so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane.’ – Doug Liman

‘If you run a business, if you are responsible for a lot of people, you come to grips with the reality that you have to have discipline. You have to protect the enterprise in order to take care of the employees. So, therefore, you can’t be wasteful. You can’t squander things, or you jeopardize other people.’ – Steve Wynn

‘As a dancer, I’d dance with broken toes. Just like acting, you compete with yourself and drive forward. That discipline helped in Hollywood.’ – Jaime Pressly

‘Southern people are raised with a work ethic. My son is 5 years old and does chores. My mom was a dance teacher, and the training and discipline it takes to be a dancer I’ve carried with me in Hollywood.’ – Jaime Pressly

‘People seem to be looking for discipline in a topsy-turvy world.’ – Gordon B. Hinckley

‘From the days of biplanes and silk scarves, the aviator has been the archetype of masculine glamour. Aviators have personified national ideals, from French elan to Soviet party discipline. They’ve inspired lust and admiration. They’ve turned sunglasses and short, utilitarian leather jackets into fashion statements.’ – Virginia Postrel

‘When ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ premiered on the WB Network in 1996, American culture was in trouble. Americans were bowling alone, pursuing individual interests to the detriment of the communal good. Business leaders were celebrating creativity and neglecting discipline. Nike’s ‘Just do it’ ads were teaching young people to break the rules.’ – Virginia Postrel

‘Our vision is to rediscover the spirit of the Renaissance, create a new discipline where engineering for cultural heritage is actually a symbol of blending art and science together.’ – Maurizio Seracini

‘There’s a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it’s an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.’ – Norman Foster

‘Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don’t think there’s a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.’ – Jim Yong Kim

‘Most of us don’t mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn’t interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘Going to the gym and looking for a specific result is a short-lived existence, as opposed to going to the gym and adopting it as a lifestyle. Develop a routine, because it’s much harder to break it if you have one. If you have no routine, you have nothing to break, so discipline goes out the window.’ – Eric Dane

‘Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That’s one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.’ – Timothy Noah

‘I started on computers with ‘Billy Bathgate,’ a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it’s so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I’ve learned to discipline myself.’ – E. L. Doctorow

‘There’s no better training than working on a soap opera because of the amount of hours, the amount of pages you do a day are unbelievable. It’s the best training I had in terms of discipline.’ – Daniela Ruah

‘I know when I have kids, when I’m older, I’m going to encourage them to play sports because I think it teaches you a lot. It teaches you discipline, teamwork, and that there’s really no ‘I’ in team.’ – Gregg Sulkin

‘Raising children uses every bit of your being – your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.’ – Nicole Ari Parker

‘I’ve criticized Republicans for their lack of fiscal discipline when they controlled Congress before 2007. However, that is no excuse to just continue with more of the same or, as the case is now, to make it worse. Under House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s budget, we will double the national debt in five years and triple it in 10.’ – Erik Paulsen

‘Fiscal discipline is a priority in Romania, and we have already proven we are committed and able to make real progress in this area.’ – Victor Ponta

‘Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline.’ – Nancy Gibbs

‘The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that’s worthwhile. Otherwise, you’re just doodling. It’s much easier when you’re just told what you have to do.’ – John Hurt

‘I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently.’ – Tony Scott

‘I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.’ – Sue Monk Kidd

‘Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.’ – Mitch Gaylord

‘You’ll have to hire people to expand your business. But it’s a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.’ – James Altucher

‘I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting.’ – Linda Ronstadt

‘Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel’s will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were narrowly defined, and researchers were often classically trained in only one discipline. In the late 19th century, knowledge of science was not a requisite for success in other walks of life.’ – Peter Agre

‘At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology, politics, international relations and economics. History is also an ideal discipline for almost all careers in the law, the civil service and the private sector.’ – Antony Beevor

‘You really need to have that discipline. It’s not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It’s not like a vague, ‘Motivate yourself!’ and do something. It’s specific hours set aside every day for certain things.’ – Kumail Nanjiani

‘I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn’t have the instrument or the discipline. The road for opera singers is more difficult than for actors.’ – Kyle MacLachlan

‘Art can’t be taught; passion can’t be taught; discipline can’t be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.’ – Elizabeth George

‘You work with every actor differently. It’s like if you’re a mother, if you have children, some children need more discipline. Other children, you back off of a little bit and let them be. It’s the same way with actors. Some actors need a lot of hand holding. Other actors like to be let be, and you let them go.’ – Rob Reiner

‘I used to have to beg and borrow ¬£25 to hire some French windows. I started producing in 1967, and I was in debt until 1981. Having a think about whether you can afford ‘this’ or ‘that’ is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.’ – Cameron Mackintosh

‘Rock stars, like anyone else, have to show discipline and take consistent good actions.’ – Jeffrey Gitomer

‘I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin… If we’d had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.’ – Sara Zarr

‘It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm and vast energy.’ – Kay Redfield Jamison

‘An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I try to impress upon young doctors and graduate students that tumultuousness, if coupled to discipline and a cool mind, is not such a bad sort of thing.’ – Kay Redfield Jamison

‘What I’m pushing for is an economic discipline that will be closer to other social sciences; in particular, we should be more pragmatic about the methods that we are using instead of pretending that we have our own scientific apparatus with very sophisticated mathematic models that distinguish us from sociologists and historians.’ – Thomas Piketty

‘I think it’s a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.’ – Adam Driver

‘To survive in a profession like this, you have to have absolute discipline and commitment, and I did not quite have it for musical theater.’ – Richard C. Armitage

‘Mr. Bergman was a man of great working discipline. He forced everyone to concentrate when it was important. No disturbing noise during rehearsal. A code of silence.’ – Max von Sydow

‘No matter how senior an official is, if he violates party discipline and the law of the country, he will be seriously dealt with and punished.’ – Li Keqiang

‘I’m envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline.’ – Michael Keaton

‘The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature.’ – Samuel Smiles

‘I ask the educational system, the parents, the church, and pillars of the community to help shape a new culture of honesty, patriotism, respect, discipline and service for young Filipinos.’ – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

‘I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.’ – Barry O’Farrell

‘There’s a final exam in venture every four to six years. The scary thing is you need to get an ‘A’ in every discipline. You need to be on generational planning, need to be on great deal flow, need be on great outcomes, you need to be on great company building.’ – David Sze

‘The discipline, particularly in these urban schools for the poor, it’s not controlled by the administration – they’re controlled by the police. This is an expression of a racist logic that has now seeped directly into schools.’ – Henry Giroux

‘I’ve used my time at ‘GH’ to learn some discipline.’ – Nathan Parsons

‘I actually don’t think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.’ – Daniel Boulud

‘There’s nothing like the discipline of having to work on a cold film set on the Danubian plain in Bulgaria. Boy, does it get cold.’ – John Rhys-Davies

‘I think I learned discipline on ‘Jane Eyre.’ Charlotte Bronte’s dialogue, the intellectual duel between Rochester and Jane Eyre’s character, is so compelling that you didn’t have to do much with the placement of cameras.’ – Cary Fukunaga

‘I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.’ – Damien Chazelle

‘The whole reason I did a bodybuilding show was to see how far I could push my own discipline. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. When I made the switch to acting, I was able to break that down into small, measurable goals like I did with bodybuilding.’ – Matt McGorry

‘I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.’ – Kacy Catanzaro

‘I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere I wanted them to have, I had to discipline it into the clearest, most traditional language possible.’ – Patrick Modiano

‘If you’re a songwriter, you have to do homework. You can exist for a while on the inspiration, but at some point, you have to sit down and have the discipline to write – to finish the poem, as they say.’ – Jenny Lewis

‘Market discipline can only limit moral hazard to the extent that debt and equity holders believe that, in the event of distress, they will bear costs.’ – Ben Bernanke

‘The Federal Reserve has always recognized the importance of allowing markets to work, and government oversight of financial firms will never be fully effective without the aid of strong market discipline.’ – Ben Bernanke

‘I truly believe the discipline I have honed as a dancer will bring me more opportunities as an actor.’ – Sofia Boutella

‘I think growing an economy is a good way to help with a deficit, but ultimately, it’s about fiscal discipline and responsible spending – and smart decisions.’ – Justin Trudeau

‘More exposure has give to me more discipline because I am seeing that more people are wanting to observe what I am making/filming/singing; this does motivate me to make videos for every week.’ – Flula Borg

‘In 2004, one of my books, ‘Whale Talk,’ was chosen as an all-school read in Fowlerville, Michigan, a rural town not far from Detroit. They had done what I thought was a brilliant and innovative thing: decided to teach the book in every discipline, sophomores through seniors.’ – Chris Crutcher

‘My early years were hardly a model of focus, discipline, and direction. No one who met me as a teenager could have imagined my going into research and making important discoveries. No one could have predicted the arc of my career.’ – Craig Venter

‘I love the freedom you feel on horseback, and enjoy the discipline of competition.’ – Jessica Springsteen

‘Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘The main thing during a crisis is discipline, to begin investing in time again after the crisis subsides.’ – Suleyman Kerimov

‘When, over fifty years ago, I first became interested in economics – as a discipline that provided the key to social structure and social problems – it never crossed my mind that one day I might be the honored recipient of a Nobel Memorial Prize.’ – Simon Kuznets

‘The American people deserve a blueprint for policymaking that is built upon the Constitution of the United States and the principles of fiscal discipline, limited government, accountability, and a strong national defense.’ – Jason Chaffetz

‘It’s all discipline and schedule for me. I mean, it’s very easy to get distracted by the real world and things that intrude constantly, and it takes dedication to live totally in your head and be tuned out.’ – Kristin Gore

‘Going from idea to production is a huge hurdle. It took me a while to overcome it. It’s basically all about self discipline, right?’ – Gene Luen Yang

‘In every new generation, the impulses supposed to have been rooted out by discipline in the child break forth again when the struggle for existence – of the individual in society, of the society in the life of the state – begins. These passions are not transformed by the prevalent education of the day, but only repressed.’ – Ellen Key

‘In the 1970s, as historians became enchanted with microhistories, economists were expanding the reach of their discipline. Nations, states and cities began to plan for the future by consulting with economists whose prognostications were shaped by investment cycles rather than historical ones.’ – Annalee Newitz

‘Monetary discipline forces fiscal discipline on the politicians as well.’ – Robert Mundell

‘I’m working on a new creator-owned series for Vertigo called ‘The Discipline.” – Peter Milligan

‘The eighteenth century discovery that, in an institutional framework that facilitates voluntary exchanges among individuals, this process generates results that might be evaluated positively, produced ‘economics,’ as an independent academic discipline or science.’ – James M. Buchanan

‘In 1973, I left the Rockefeller University to join the Yale University Medical School. The main reason for the move was my belief that the time had come for fruitful interactions between the new discipline of Cell Biology and the traditional fields of interest of medical schools, namely Pathology and Clinical Medicine.’ – George Emil Palade

‘When I’m writing a book, I don’t have any responsibility to anyone. I’m solitary. I’m writing on my own. I write by hand. And I write every day. I mean, it’s part of my daily discipline.’ – Patti Smith

‘Of course, every artist has ‘minor works’ that they do, but I don’t think I have any ‘minor disciplines.’ Each discipline I approach as a major undertaking that I put my whole self into.’ – Patti Smith

‘It is fortunate that molecular synthesis also serves the utilitarian function of producing quantities of rare or novel substances which satisfy human needs, especially with regard to health, and the scientific function of stimulating research and education throughout the whole discipline of chemistry.’ – Elias James Corey

‘Various circumstances, mainly to do with my military service, prevented me from doing a Ph.D., and I have often regretted it, though you do need to choose the ‘right’ supervisor in the ‘right’ discipline – no easy task when you are totally inexperienced.’ – Yves Chauvin

‘The more you create, the more ambitious you become with your projects. Short films were a direct result of over 200 web series sketches and vlogs. After you create enough 2-minute videos, you start to wonder what else there is. Deadlines and discipline and quantity with a focus on quality have always been what keeps me going.’ – Anna Akana

‘I’m embarrassed to reveal that I never went to CBGB’s in the ’80s. I was never cool enough to be a punk, and I wouldn’t have had the stamina, or the discipline, for straight-edge.’ – Stacey D’Erasmo

‘Music is such an incredible tool for kids in general. They learn discipline; they learn how to express themselves. You learn math. You learn language. It’s the ideal teaching tool, and that’s why it’s mind-boggling when any school superintendent decides that music is something we can kind of do without.’ – Joshua Bell

‘Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.’ – Narendra Modi

‘The most important lesson my parents taught me is that writing is a job, one that requires discipline and commitment. Most of the time it’s a fun job, a wonderful job, but sometimes it isn’t, and those are the days that test you.’ – Jesse Kellerman

‘I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I’m well started on a project, though, then I’m addicted to it all day long. When it’s done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.’ – P. N. Elrod

‘The Celtic Church as we know it, till gradually brought under Roman discipline, was purely monastic. The monasteries were the centres whence the ministry of souls was exercised.’ – Sabine Baring-Gould

‘The best restraint is old-fashioned market discipline, in which financial traders know that they, personally, will lose a ton of money if they take risky bets that don’t pan out.’ – David Ignatius

‘From the age of 6, when I won my first race in skiing, I was on the national ski teams, really until Olympics in ’72, so I always had a lot of discipline and commitment to achieve as much as I could in good way. Competitiveness doesn’t stop when you stop skiing.’ – Ivana Trump

‘The very essence of political philosophy is the carving out of an ethical system – strictly, a subset of ethics dealing with political ethics. Ethics is the one rational discipline that demands the establishment of a rational set of value judgments; political ethics is that subset applying to matters of State.’ – Murray Rothbard

‘Painfully to attain possession of what we do not want, and then painfully to waste our days in attempting to rid ourselves of it, seems to be a part of our discipline here below.’ – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

‘We need to focus on issues where we all agree, which is spending discipline and control and making sure that government, both in Springfield and in Washington, doesn’t take more from your family budget.’ – Mark Kirk

‘The history is important because science is a discipline deeply immersed in history. In other words, every time you perform an experiment in science or in medicine, what you’re actually doing is you’re answering someone, answering a question raised by someone in the past.’ – Siddhartha Mukherjee

‘The trick to my writing, it turned out, was doing so exclusively in bed. The minute I even dared to discipline myself and write at the desk, I produced mounds of nonsense. Yet, sitting in bed, I wrote easily, effortlessly, fluidly. I became the master of perfect indiscipline.’ – Siddhartha Mukherjee

‘I shared a dressing room with Pete Postlethwaite for 18 months, and he became a good friend. His discipline had an impact on me. You could have a laugh with him, but he was always on the ball when it came to work and very professional. Hopefully some of that rubbed off on me.’ – Sean Bean

‘Ballet can be grueling, for sure, but it gives you a certain discipline.’ – Margaret Qualley

‘People say, ‘What a discipline, painting so much.’ I say, ‘No, I love it.’ Nothing amuses me as much as my work. To have discipline would be not to paint.’ – Fernando Botero

‘Fuseproject was founded in 1999, and the notion behind it, which is alive and kicking today, is fusing different disciplines. Our teams are absolutely incredible at their own discipline, but most importantly, they’re incredible at partnering with each other.’ – Yves Behar

‘I was fortunate, I guess, to be part of some good fiscal discipline in the Bush administration. The budget I put forward was a balanced budget.’ – Rob Portman

‘I gravitate towards roles where women find strength in very difficult, uncompromising situations but maintain clarity in mind, discipline at heart, and a certain strength in spirit.’ – Michelle Yeoh

‘I grew up studying martial arts, playing violin, swimming competitively, so I already had athletic focus, discipline and training. When I brought that to climbing, I became passionate.’ – Jimmy Chin

‘When I am making a sequel, it needs to be different from what you have already seen. Yet, it needs to maintain a certain discipline so that people still associate it with the prequel.’ – James Wan

‘Fiscal discipline can turn the economy around.’ – Jeff Fortenberry

‘I think ‘austerity’ is a much abused word. I prefer to call it ‘fiscal discipline’ or financial, ‘financial competency.” – Enda Kenny

‘From the age of seven, I basically started practicing my hand-eye and foot coordination, balance, strength, endurance, discipline, and mental toughness three days a week until I was about 15.’ – Ashton Eaton

‘It’s our privilege to work with College Track students as they chart their course toward a college degree – they bring persistence, creativity, and extraordinary discipline throughout their academic journey.’ – Laurene Powell Jobs

‘People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline of it. Next to the bagginess of novel writing, it almost feels like a martial art.’ – Matt Haig

‘My first cassette was ‘Synchronicity,’ and my first CD was U2 ‘War’ and King Crimson ‘Discipline.” – Christopher McCulloch

‘It’s hard work to ensure that all schools are safe and welcoming places for all children. It means changing policies, practices and cultures; providing school support personnel; and funding programs like restorative justice – not simply resorting to excessive and often discriminatory discipline.’ – Randi Weingarten

‘So much of football relates to Christian life – sacrifice, commitment, discipline.’ – Benjamin Watson

‘My father made sure of discipline, but my mum, she was serious business.’ – Alek Wek

‘For me, learning music and playing music and learning your instrument has incredible parallels for our day-to-day existence as human beings. All the ideas of discipline, and having a sense of yourself and translating that to music, that’s all part of life’s journey.’ – Arturo O’Farrill

‘A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it’s become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It’s a tool for me; when you’re an entrepreneur, and you’re pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.’ – Imran Amed

‘Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.’ – Imran Amed

‘I’ve always played sport, ever since I was little. I played volleyball and I believe sport teaches you a lot, such as teamwork, respect and discipline.’ – Gisele Bundchen

‘I’ve learned a lot from trainers over the years, but mainly that you need discipline to stay in the gym and out of the many fine cupcake emporiums on every corner.’ – Lauren Graham

‘With the proper motivation, you can do anything. I was just a poor kid that ate pork and beans out of a can and apple sauce. I went from rags to riches. But it does take a lot of determination, inner strength, drive, and discipline.’ – Lee Haney

‘In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, corrupt and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is so seldom the sudden light that shows new order and beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark.’ – John Cornforth

‘In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that’s something that’s very important when you are held hostage.’ – Ingrid Betancourt

‘Why limit yourself to one discipline or field of study?’ – Kurt Elling

‘I’ve met lots of interesting people, but Lucian Freud is the one who sticks out because I spent so much time with him. He taught me discipline, which I hadn’t been taught properly before. If I was, like, two seconds, late, he would kick off. Once, I was three minutes late, and he went absolutely berserk.’ – Kate Moss

‘My mother and father were partisan national heroes: I learned sacrifice and discipline from them and that a private life is not as important as the message you want to leave.’ – Marina Abramovic

‘Training and education is one and the same: that is, to train the mind through a discipline in order to awake the inner intelligence of the individuals.’ – Lobsang Tenzin

‘The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.’ – Sam Houston

‘I had discipline in other areas but certainly not in athletics.’ – Lucas Till

‘Our nuclear scientists and engineers have done a splendid job, and naturally, the entire nation has risen to salute their professional excellence, discipline, and patriotism. They have had the benefit of having been led in the past by great men like Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai.’ – Atal Bihari Vajpayee

‘I became so disciplined when I was on tag. I would be at home by eight o’clock, and because I had boxing, I lived the disciplined life. I started reading because I learnt that so many champions educated themselves. Joe Louis, Mike Tyson, Bernard Hopkins. Before, it was ‘act now, think later’ – but the discipline and reading changed me.’ – Anthony Joshua

‘I didn’t make the most of school, but boxing has given me discipline.’ – Anthony Joshua

‘It takes a certain type of man to become a boxer, to fight for a living. To be able to have the confidence to hit another man, to control your fears. You must overcome the psychical aspect and believe in the art, the discipline of the sport. You need to study. You need to be smart.’ – Anthony Joshua

‘I studied the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence in Nashville as a student. And I staged a sitting-in in the fall of 1959 and got arrested the first time in February 1960.’ – John Lewis

‘It is very difficult when you grow up without a father because you don’t have a man who can give you direction and discipline.’ – Henrikh Mkhitaryan

‘For me, it’s about moderation and discipline, and that’s something I picked up from my dad. I don’t believe in rigorous workouts but believe in eating right, going to bed early, and getting a proper workout.’ – Akkineni Nagarjuna

‘For me, I’ve been known as a very well-rounded fighter, and I think that’s really important, that you’re well rounded and comfortable in every situation that a fight can go. A lot of people focus on just one discipline, and when they get out of that, they’re in a difficult position.’ – Paige VanZant

‘I like ground and pound; I don’t know if it is like a technique or discipline. I like to be on the ground, but I don’t necessarily go for submissions or anything.’ – Paige VanZant

‘The idea of physical strain and discipline, the question of how and when you leave that life behind – they’re things I’m familiar with on one level or another.’ – Katie Kitamura

‘I pretty much admire anybody who has the discipline and the will to make a career out of fighting. It takes buckets of nerve.’ – Katie Kitamura

‘Basketball requires discipline. So does writing. Basketball requires practice. So does writing. Basketball requires resilience. So does writing.’ – Angie Thomas

‘If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.’ – Laura Dern

‘My dad was lackadaisical on the discipline front. I dropped out of everything at school.’ – Juliette Lewis

‘No one wants a lecture when you’re getting a latte. So if you get one without asking, isn’t that grounds for some discipline?’ – Greg Gutfeld

‘I don’t like post-modernism. It’s cynical, and takes no discipline – you just copy. It doesn’t allow a film to be open to reality.’ – Luca Guadagnino

‘You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they were sensible that, while we had commanders and yielded obedience to them, we were able to conquer them; but, having seized our commanders, they concluded that we should, from a want of command and discipline, be destroyed.’ – Xenophon

‘I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.’ – Olga Fonda

‘I don’t think I’m conscious of most of the things I’ve drawn from football, because they’re so ingrained in me now… understanding that the discipline and the routine and the regimentation to be successful.’ – Sam Hunt

‘Self-imposed discipline with a bent towards results rather than ‘creative’ and sustainability spending is unfortunately not the norm in the marketing industry.’ – Ryan Holiday

‘Being a dancer or athlete of any type teaches you the fundamentals of discipline… and the ability to know you can grow.’ – Payal Kadakia

‘What I like to say when you get into something that feels like a bubble or, at least, feels irrational is that you still want to build a company that has a strong discipline, business-building culture.’ – Travis Kalanick

‘I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander’s authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women under his or her command within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.’ – Tammy Duckworth

‘College is good discipline. That’s what I learned there: pull an all-nighter, get it done, and get an A. I’m the biggest procrastinator, and I learned how to be an efficient procrastinator.’ – Nikki Glaser

‘Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.’ – Adam Grant

‘I like thrillers a lot. There’s a lot of discipline connected to them. You can’t be as freewheeling as you are with character pieces.’ – Sydney Pollack

‘Retaining culture takes effort and persistence and discipline. It’s a commitment, not a flag. You can’t just pull it out and wave it about when it’s convenient.’ – Alexandra Fuller

‘A lot more people are willing to invest in bonds denominated in euros. And there was the fiscal discipline argument, which is that this tied the hands of countries the market hasn’t always trusted, which also helped them borrow at low rates.’ – Austan Goolsbee

‘I have no way of comparing myself to other people my age; I can’t compare myself with Jane Fonda, can I? I haven’t had the work done. I admire the discipline of someone who maintains that degree of beauty, but I’m not prepared to do it.’ – Diana Rigg

‘In a way, architecture is about communication. That’s an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there’s definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I’m also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.’ – Magnus Larsson

‘USNA had a great engineering school, which was one of my interests, and I knew I would benefit from the great discipline and accountability that Navy provides.’ – David Robinson

‘Parents today are self-absorbed. They don’t care what anyone thinks or even what their children think. There is less focus on discipline, integrity, boundaries, fairness, honesty and spirituality.’ – GloZell

‘Computers shouldn’t be parents, but they are. Please, spend time with your kids. If you don’t want to, then I don’t want to. It might hurt you to discipline your offspring, but it saves the child from being disciplined later by someone less forgiving. Like a criminal court judge. If you don’t spank your child, someone else will.’ – GloZell

‘I’m going to discipline my kids, and can’t no one tell me how to discipline my kids.’ – Calvin Johnson

‘It’s not a public matter when you discipline your family.’ – Calvin Johnson

‘I’ve raised my boys the old-fashioned way, with spankings, sending them upstairs if they misbehave at parties, the works. I believe discipline is the proof of love.’ – Jerry Lewis

‘Hollywood has got technology, method, and discipline.’ – Ali Fazal

‘It’s hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.’ – Nelsan Ellis

‘Boot camp was the first time I got a heavy dose of discipline. It was the best thing that ever happened to me.’ – Nelsan Ellis

‘Patience, discipline – giving everything on court… This is what I’m trying to bring in every single match.’ – Angelique Kerber

‘Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a certain dignity, an angry dignity.’ – Ellen Ullman

‘Both parents were teachers. My father became an assistant principal, and he was responsible for discipline at the school. So I didn’t get away with much at home.’ – Steve Mollenkopf

‘I’ve got a friend who’s a power lifter, and she’s a vegetarian. I don’t know how she does it. I want red meat all the time. I applaud the discipline; I really do. I just can’t do it. Good for her, but not for me.’ – Seth Rollins

‘Not even Trump’s father’s wealth, nor his father’s faith in his son’s destiny, could save Trump from incessant discipline. At the age of 13, he was shipped off to the New York Military Academy, which employed brutal tactics for the remaking of delinquent character, even resorting to violence to assert control over the boys.’ – Franklin Foer

‘There are two big benefits from moving conversations from a mode where you’re addressing individuals, or groups of individuals, to addressing a channel which is a topic, a project, a functional discipline, or whatever.’ – Stewart Butterfield

‘What makes a poem is the discipline inherent in making a poem: trying to fit feelings in the requisite number of syllables and lines, disciplining one’s feelings.’ – Derek Walcott

‘As much as I like teaching and students, it’s a kind of rigor, a discipline, that’s against my body.’ – Derek Walcott

‘Shooting on film is great because it imparts discipline: What do you need to see so you’re not finding it in the camera. When I’m shooting, I have the scene in mind, where I’m going to have certain lines. I learned to overlap and to shoot more than I think I need. That was the learning curve.’ – Dee Rees

‘I love baking cakes and slices and biscuits, but I will only make them if I’m going somewhere with lots of people so I can share them around. I’ve got a sweet tooth, and I’m not good with discipline, so it’s easier if I just don’t have desserts in the house.’ – Rebecca Breeds

‘You need to constantly remind yourself what is the most important thing that is happening in the world – what is the most important thing that is happening in history. The discipline to have this focus is something I gained from meditation.’ – Yuval Noah Harari

‘I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.’ – Jocko Willink

‘Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.’ – Jocko Willink

‘You exorcise the things that haunt you. That’s one good thing about any artistic discipline.’ – Diego Luna

‘I have always said, ’40 is the new 20,’ and I truly believe that, but it for sure takes a lot of hard work, education, and discipline to keep it all together as we make our way to 50 and beyond.’ – Yolanda Hadid

‘Arjun’s character has brought discipline in my life. Now everything happens in my life well planned. Initially, I used to get up at any time, but now I get up at appropriate time, and I keep a check on my diet.’ – Shaheer Sheikh

‘One of the things about being a law student is that the academic discipline of law is very often removed from the practical reality of law. How to complain, who to complain to, and whether or not you even need to invoke the law is very different in the real world from how it’s examined in the lecture theatre.’ – Robert Rinder

‘Writing is this odd act, right? To sit and type, or write by hand, or whatever people do. And it requires a real discipline because it is really a sheer act of will that you’re creating something, and you’re doing it by yourself.’ – Noah Hawley

‘Veterans have the skills employers want – discipline, motivation, leadership, and the ability to work on a team. They have made the U.S. military the most effective and respected in the world.’ – Bobby Kotick

‘I think I approach pressure by having discipline and learning to be calm in everyday life. I do this with a daily mindfulness practice and commitment.’ – Christen Press

‘The discipline as a dancer carried over into my life.’ – Phyllis Smith

‘I often say that paying off your debt is like dieting. There are no miracle cures; it takes discipline and hard work.’ – Lisa Madigan

‘People don’t become obese overnight. Allowing our children to have treats in moderation – as in trick-or-treating – is one thing, but good nutrition involves discipline that must be learned and practiced on a daily basis.’ – Amy Klobuchar

‘Some of the best lessons that I’ve ever learned are on a ball field – basketball, football, baseball, golf. And I learned great lessons from my coaches – being on time, being mentally tough, having some discipline, and being part of a team.’ – Jon Gruden

‘We’ve got enough issues in this country without worrying about some of the things we’re worrying about. It’s unbelievable to me. And as long as I’m alive, I know what football gave me. It taught me my work ethic. It gave me a sense of discipline.’ – Jon Gruden

‘There is so little SF drawn from modern scientific thinking, in any discipline, that I’m much more cheered by the successes than the failures, most of which are forgivable.’ – Alastair Reynolds

‘You can’t write a thing that is hermetically sealed; there has to be a way for the audience to get in and participate. I think that’s a massively valuable discipline for any artist.’ – Naomi Alderman

‘The Germans argue – and I can fully understand them – that the euro countries must surrender their sovereignty, because that is the only way to implement budget discipline in a fiscal union.’ – Charles Dallara

‘I can still hear my mom’s voice echoing through the house, reminding me and my siblings to ‘Make your beds!’ It seems like such a small thing, but when you’re one of 15 brothers and sisters like me, those small reminders about the importance of discipline and order are critical.’ – Peggy Johnson

‘I always knew I wanted to be a doctor. I saw a lot of my friends having a hard time figuring out what they wanted to do, so I’m glad I had a purpose and goal to focus on. I liked the discipline and the sense of structure.’ – Holly Branson

‘African American students have less access to algebra and more access to seclusion and restraint than do their white peers. The significant disparity in educational resources has caused this problem of disparate discipline and disparate academic outcomes.’ – Chaka Fattah

‘It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.’ – Cyril Ramaphosa

‘I turned my hand to costume design a few years ago when I created the outfits for ‘This Is the Sea,’ with Richard Harris and Samantha Morton. It’s a very different discipline to being a fashion designer, though – you have to rein in your own vision and work to a tight brief.’ – John Rocha

‘I think my own thinking is harsher than my mom’s discipline.’ – Mirai Nagasu

‘You can’t be going through life expecting everything. You gotta have discipline.’ – Cam’ron

‘I am not by any means a philosopher, although I have worked with some talented people in the discipline. But certain philosophical concepts deeply inform the way I think about the world. The idea of ‘opposing truths at extremes’ is a powerful concept that I came to appreciate in my twenties.’ – Joe Lonsdale

‘When someone is successful, there’s always a feeling that they were lucky. Luck plays a part, sure, but to be successful, you must have iron discipline. You must have energy and hunger and desire and honesty.’ – Faye Dunaway

‘I want to really study and learn about fashion, and kind of discipline for a few years, really start to study, and then probably start my photography career. I feel like that’d be really good for me – to disappear for a few years.’ – Brooklyn Beckham

‘I’d love to do something where I have to completely transform. Or something that is very physical and would test me with discipline in that way. Something that I’d maybe have to train for.’ – Jodie Comer

‘There are so many tricks and so much eye candy in cinema. What I love about the classicism of genre is that there’s a discipline. I think it’s a healthy thing to resist all that candy.’ – John Hillcoat

‘If I go play ‘Modern Warfare,’ I’ll find a hundred different things I’d like done differently. And I don’t have the discipline to not express my opinion.’ – Bobby Kotick

‘I’m not a person who believes in the great difference between women and men as editors. But I do think that quality is key. We’re very good at organizing and discipline and patience, and patience is 50 per cent of editing. You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that.’ – Thelma Schoonmaker

‘Editing is a lot about patience and discipline and just banging away at something, turning off the machine and going home at night because you’re frustrated and depressed, and then coming back in the morning to try again.’ – Thelma Schoonmaker

‘To most people, paranoia carries a negative connotation. I believe it is one of the most valuable attributes a leader can have. It is about self-reflection and having the courage, humility, and discipline to constantly ask uncomfortable questions that can potentially poke holes in your strategy and challenge your conventional thinking.’ – Dinesh Paliwal

‘Oftentimes, successful brands can lose discipline or become complacent over time, applying less rigor to the cost control and returns on investment.’ – Dinesh Paliwal

‘We love to make sure all the boxes are checked – that we aren’t just prepared but over-prepared before we raise our hand. It’s that discipline that I love most about women, but it’s also what holds us women back the most because by the time we raise our hand, that opportunity is often gone.’ – Julie Foudy

‘School is now a place where punishment and discipline are prioritized over serving students and educating them. Any moment where a student falls outside scripted behavior becomes an opportunity for law enforcement to come in, criminalizing ordinary things people do every day.’ – Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

‘First of all, magicians practice a lot. It requires a lot of discipline. Second, you can’t be afraid to be a leader, to go onstage, and you learn to have presence. You need to be able to visualize and connect and create. Most important, you learn to think outside the box.’ – Daniel Lubetzky

‘I didn’t get acne until after college, and I was very concerned, not only because I didn’t have the discipline to not pick at my face but then that would lead to scarring and more acne – it’s a vicious cycle that can be broken!’ – Hannah Bronfman

‘The party where humorless thought police work to enforce a rigid ideological discipline isn’t made up of Democrats. It comprises Republicans.’ – Jacob Weisberg

‘I played basketball and baseball up until college, yea. Then I lost my discipline and started chasing girls and whatnot.’ – Omar Benson Miller

‘I learned a lot from being in hell. I learned discipline. I learned that I choose what to put in my body.’ – Bernard Hopkins

‘If you read Bernard Hopkins’ name in the dictionary, the definition would be ‘discipline.” – Bernard Hopkins

‘Even if you can’t afford to buy a painting, you can experience it. You can go see the Mona Lisa and be transported. You can see the discipline and suffering in a van Gogh.’ – Adrien Brody

‘The industrial world enjoys a rare combination of growth and low inflation; the ‘Washington consensus,’ a model of economic development that emphasizes macroeconomic discipline and open markets, is being adopted by more countries.’ – Zanny Minton Beddoes

‘In ‘Sweet Days of Discipline,’ the narrator, years after graduating, fortuitously encounters her old friend Frederique at a movie theatre. Frederique invites her home.’ – Sheila Heti

‘Professional creativity requires more than inspiration, talent, and discipline – it requires an endurance that few are aware of and even fewer have.’ – Lela Loren

‘Discipline tops my list of most-hated things, followed closely by portobello mushrooms.’ – Jenny Mollen

‘I’ve always felt that where Priest has been able to get to, it’s been down to discipline, our real love and commitment to making the best music that we can make, and never forgetting our fan base.’ – Rob Halford

‘I’ve taught martial arts to many children, from 5 years old and up – there’s character development, there’s respect, discipline, perseverance.’ – Scott Coker

‘I admire people who can spend every aspect of their life in one discipline and really go all the way. I feel the only way I could achieve some type of excellence is if I connect to other people, other disciplines.’ – Robert Lepage

‘When I look into the future and where I’d like to live, I’ll say Germany because I grew up there and like the discipline the people have. But my background is from Zonguldak in Turkey. I’m there a lot.’ – Mesut Ozil

‘What I needed and actually need is a discipline of tradition, which is lacking in our civilization. Discipline of tradition and the ceremony of humbleness.’ – Donovan

‘I didn’t understand the culture and what Starbucks was really about. It wasn’t a coffee shop. It was really a way of life… we suffer from thinking that since we have it in New York, or it won’t work in New York, that it won’t work some other place. That’s a discipline we keep trying to improve.’ – Alan Patricof

‘Sports is one of the keys to my life. It definitely kept me out of a lot of trouble and gave me a lot of discipline.’ – Freddie Gibbs

‘I obviously work really hard. But I also have the capacity to dream really big and have the discipline to materialize those dreams.’ – J Balvin

‘When I was doing gymnastics, I was playing. It was fun. The ballet was not fun at all. Yes, I agree you must have discipline, but you don’t need to be a witch. You can’t teach a child like that. Three times a week, I went back to train as a gymnast. Then I was happy.’ – Sylvie Guillem

‘Paying attention to what we allow ourselves to pay attention to is a tricky thing. It’s like being in two places at once but completely worth the discipline. We can react mindlessly or respond mindfully. It’s up to us.’ – Tara Stiles

‘You have to look in the mirror and really have an honest conversation with yourself and find the discipline to not eat things that don’t agree with you.’ – Big Show

‘Learning essential stuff is as much a discipline as going to the gym or sticking to a diet, and an excellent antidote for the modern condition of being numb and dumb.’ – Ben Fountain

‘I would say wrestling gives you confidence. It gives you strength. It helps you learn discipline, and to know that you have to love the process and respect the process, and if you just keep going, you can accomplish anything.’ – Alexa Bliss

‘A boy needs a male figure, and the girls do, too. Somebody to discipline them and make them be a man.’ – Bobby Bowden

‘At Union Securities, I threw myself into my work with the discipline and commitment that I had always demonstrated in employment and only rarely displayed in school. Years later, I would come to appreciate, abstractly, the importance of productive activity to the mind and soul of both an individual and a nation.’ – William E. Simon

‘Being the patriarch means having to exercise discipline every waking moment, and that includes the second you wake up.’ – Gavin McInnes

‘The U.S. Open just takes so much discipline. You have got to be a great putter and just kind of let things roll off your back.’ – Brooks Koepka

‘I’ve been a role model in terms of discipline, and I have always been rigorous and professional.’ – Samuel Eto’o

‘Is discipline (both mental and physical) in place of coddling truly child abuse? I don’t know, but it sure as hell is effective.’ – Steven Crowder

‘When I started training, I learned a lot, you know – respect. I think you learn a lot of things, and kids should learn mixed martial arts for discipline.’ – Cris Cyborg

‘Everybody’s life matters. But that’s why we have to say black lives matter, because the highest disproportionality, police brutality, disenfranchisement, education disproportionality in school discipline, curriculum, misrepresentation, all of this.’ – Rachel Dolezal

‘God helped me with the desire to be great and the discipline to get myself ready, so I am an example of what can happen if you really put your mind to something and work hard for it.’ – Yoel Romero

‘Even though you think boxing is a contact sport, it teaches you not to fight on the street, to behave. It gives you discipline and self-control.’ – Amir Khan

‘My focus in the training sessions is always about movement to create openings and opportunities. When you don’t have the ball, you still need the discipline to know where you should be, who you should be marking, but when we have the ball, it is important to be able to move around.’ – Philippe Coutinho

‘I would love to write a script, for sure. I write poetry and songs. But writing a script needs a lot of time and discipline.’ – Ayushmann Khurrana

‘My discipline in myself has got me where I am. I try to emphasise that to young players.’ – Craig Bellamy

‘My first boss at the BBC was Aubrey Singer. The main thing I learned from him was discipline. I also learned things about myself: namely, that I hated commuting and didn’t really want a 9-5 job.’ – Matthew Bourne

‘Sport instils discipline, and it’s a distraction.’ – Dillian Whyte

‘I’ve never been able to accept any kind of discipline.’ – Lee Marvin

‘Being a person of the armed forces is not easy. Performing it is also not easy. There is a sense of discipline and body language that you need to have throughout.’ – Rana Daggubati

‘I’ve always had an interest in Muay Thai fighting. I love the discipline and toughness of it, so I traveled to Thailand to study ways to incorporate it into my style.’ – Rusev

‘I realise that I have made quite a few of the same mistakes with my kids that my dad made: not so much in trying to determine their lives for them but in terms of trying to discipline them.’ – Naseeruddin Shah

‘From playwrights I had never heard of and performance forms I had never seen to sculpture and painting, I gained immense experience as an actor in National School of Drama (NSD). I discovered what discipline and good taste in the theatre means.’ – Naseeruddin Shah

‘I think theater probably remains my favorite, sort of where my soul lives. It takes a lot of discipline, and you have to show up eight shows a week, no matter how you feel physically, mentally, emotionally – there’s nobody to cut around that: you’ve got to tell the story yourself for two hours.’ – Anna Gunn

‘I have to play with discipline in midfield.’ – Memphis Depay

‘Oh, I’m going to raise him on Black Sabbath and Metallica and football and MMA and all things that should matter for a young boy, and discipline and strength and honor and courage and everything that I would hope to instill within my son.’ – David Draiman

‘You have to adapt to different teams and different players, but you have try to maintain your discipline and score goals.’ – Rafael Benitez

‘Because I came into fame so early on, I’ve never done that. I don’t investigate through the Internet about people who I know in the same way that I think most people do because I know what that’s like to be on the other end of it. I think it gave me a certain kind of discipline, or empathy.’ – Penn Badgley

‘National elections have to be fought on who can ensure better national security, who can give us a sound economic system… ensure financial discipline… And this work can only be done by Narendra Modi.’ – Amit Shah

‘Attending Seattle Central was an awesome experience – it taught me a lot about discipline in a great way.’ – Duff McKagan

‘When I came to Spain, people thought I would fly home again after the holidays, stay up all night celebrating, and would have no discipline. That may be true of other players, but it’s not my way.’ – Rivaldo

‘Someone said that my coaching is a combination of Milan’s defensive discipline and the Dutch propensity for attacking football, and I think that is a fair description.’ – Frank Rijkaard

‘I think I’ve shown I have the defensive discipline to play deep as the No.6 and start the build ups with my passing. I can also play higher up the pitch and make a difference in the opposition area. Being able to do both has helped me to play so many games.’ – Georginio Wijnaldum

‘Discipline, focus, endurance is what it takes to be the greatest at this sport.’ – Jordan Burroughs

‘My dad was a career military man, so I had that kind of discipline and training.’ – Bart Starr

‘For me, practice and discipline are the magic words to become big in any sport, especially soccer.’ – Gabriel Batistuta

‘I appreciate what I’ve achieved, and nearly all of that is because of my dad. He pushed me to train harder than I would have done if he wasn’t there to discipline me.’ – Joe Calzaghe

‘Although I was writing songs when I was younger, I didn’t feel I had much of a clue as to what I was doing or how I was doing it. There are a few songs from my past where I thought, ‘Well, that’s pretty decent,’ but I didn’t have a discipline. I suppose I’m kind of a late bloomer.’ – Timothy B. Schmit

‘I’m somebody who inspires by his own performances, by the way he conducts himself on and off the field. My discipline… I look to inspire by my actions, not just words.’ – Dinesh Karthik

‘I remember, before the 2003 World Cup, I worked extremely hard on my fitness. A great deal of training and dietary discipline. I believe I lost 19 kg. And 19 is the number of runs I scored in the entire tournament.’ – Inzamam-ul-Haq

‘Protectionism in all its forms should be rejected, and efforts should be made to discipline measures that constitute barriers to trade.’ – Sushma Swaraj

‘My family’s big on discipline, respect, manners, make sure that we respect our elders. So that’s kind of what the military is. You have to say, ‘Yes sir,’ ‘No ma’am,’ ‘Yes ma’am.’ All that stuff. That’s kind of the mold my dad has for my brothers and I.’ – Kevin Knox

‘We see the worth and appreciate the discipline my father inculcated in us.’ – Geeta Phogat

‘It was tough coaching Australia. They were so set in their ways because they have been the right ways – but the culture needed changing because the discipline was shoddy.’ – Mickey Arthur

‘It takes a lot of discipline to become and stay champion. It also takes a lot of discipline to stop while still feeling that you’re in the best physical and mental shape of your life, but I’ve always planned to leave the sport when I’m at the top and in good health.’ – Georges St-Pierre

‘In combat sports, you should retire on top. That is very hard to do. I’m glad I had the discipline to do it.’ – Georges St-Pierre

‘When you let that discipline slip you’re going to have big problems on the field.’ – Glenn McGrath

‘Players like Alastair Cook do not come around very often. To play for so long and achieve so much says everything about his fitness, concentration, discipline and skill.’ – Jonathan Agnew

‘The absolute key difference between television and radio is the ability of radio to communicate. With television you can watch the screen and your mind can be anywhere. On radio it requires a certain amount of discipline from the listener to follow what’s being said.’ – Jonathan Agnew

‘Islam really brought a discipline to my life that I didn’t really have before. My old mindset was if they ain’t helping me, I ain’t helping them, but you can’t live life that way.’ – Dave East

‘My dad was assistant governor of the prison, so there were times when he would bring some of that discipline home. He was the enforcer, whereas my mother, who was a stay-at-home mum, was always the pacifier.’ – Viv Richards

‘I’ll admit that I don’t have a lot of discipline when it comes to practicing. I’m not the type of guy who sits at home with a metronome and runs through scales and stuff like that. But I do go through phases when I’ll be more diligent, and I notice that warming up and working on some patterns will make my playing cleaner.’ – Jim Root

‘You’ve got to make sure that every body’s putting in the work and you’ve got to have the discipline to go out there and get the job done.’ – Jimmy Johnson

‘If you ask a soldier what is the key to this confidence, they will likely answer their discipline and their training.’ – Nicholas Soames

‘My faith in Islam is not unlike my faith in the game of basketball: Both require immense determination, focus, passion and discipline.’ – Enes Kanter

‘There are all sorts of challenging conversations as a parent and it’s never easy. I think the main thing is trying to be fair, sometimes there has to be a little bit of discipline, maybe even punishment involved in trying to make your child understand, learn from bad experiences and make sure they don’t happen again.’ – Archie Manning

‘I’m a marketeer, and I thought the message discipline in the Leave campaign was extraordinary.’ – Gina Miller

‘It’s so exhausting in the pocket taking shots when you know I can go. I don’t want to take that shot and maybe make a bigger play. To dedicate and discipline your mind that ‘I have to find a way, that’s the only way I can learn… ‘ That’s the challenge.’ – Steve Young

‘Fitness is basically a way of life for me. I enjoy being fit and because of that, there is a complete discipline in my family too.’ – Suniel Shetty

‘My calculus teacher would send me home every weekend with 400 problems to solve. At the time, I felt it was so strict and demanding, but now I realize that the workload instilled in me a sense of discipline, and showed me that even if I wasn’t inherently skilled at something, I could be, with enough dedication and practice.’ – Anastasia Soare

‘My parents were on the road a lot in the 1970s. Winifred Kelly, a nurse from the hospital where I was born, was hired to care for me. Her love and discipline had a big influence on my upbringing.’ – John Carter Cash

‘My experience at Florida State helped me to have the discipline to prepare as well as to endure challenging spots.’ – Wayne Messam

‘Boxing gave me the discipline and took me away from the streets and away from the corners. It changed my life, you know. Boxing dragging me away from all the bad potential I had.’ – Andy Ruiz Jr.

‘I think speed climbing is kind of an artificial discipline. Climbers compete on the same holds and train on the same holds, which doesn’t have much in common with the climbing philosophy in my opinion.’ – Adam Ondra

‘I like ‘Discipline.’ That’s my favorite King Crimson album.’ – Tim Commerford

‘I don’t have good discipline at all.’ – Ari Lennox

‘After spending time around Donald Trump I find myself inspired by his vision, thought process, keen insight, and overall discipline. He’s a brilliant thinker who tends to walk several steps ahead of the masses. I want to share his wisdom with the world in my own way.’ – Paula White

‘Football is one of the most popular sports in the country, and there are many reasons for this. You can take so much from football and apply it to life in general. Just some of those things are goal-setting, preparation, teamwork, perseverance and discipline.’ – Philip Rivers

‘Archaeology can be overlooked as a discipline, I think, but it’s incredibly important to have this other way of approaching the past – not just through historical documents, but through actual physical remains – objects, buildings and the layout of our towns.’ – Alice Roberts

‘My parents taught me practical things, about how important hard work, discipline and the necessity of managing your own money were. Their values were very much the values of the postwar middle class.’ – Tony Robinson

‘There’s no reason that a writer, if they have some discipline and curiosities and passion, can’t be vital for a long, long time.’ – Peter Hedges

‘When I think about football, I think about my love, my passion, what has football done for me as far as discipline, as far as learning how to lead. It taught me a lot about life.’ – Jameis Winston

‘Virat is in your face, he wants to dominate and has a work ethic like no one else. Whether it comes to discipline, training, sacrifice or self-denial, it is unbelievable.’ – Ravi Shastri

‘I’m happy I found discipline, something I love, and I also found God.’ – Jimi Manuwa

‘I feel lazy every day! It’s the worst thing for me to wake up in the morning and get out of bed, and that is where the discipline comes in.’ – Milind Soman

‘The beauty of football is you have to perform through ups and downs in a public form with a team and the discipline and the pushing through it and the preparation that it takes to be great – all of those things have served me well.’ – Nnamdi Asomugha

‘Too often, people equate discipline with cursing. When you go to Catholic school, the nuns don’t curse a word, but you get discipline.’ – Herm Edwards

‘This is the world you live in when you’re a football player, an athlete. You want someone to discipline you. You want to have consistency. You want a guy that puts you in position so that you can have success.’ – Herm Edwards

‘My father gave me discipline.’ – Herm Edwards

‘A second parent in the home provides back-up support in discipline when the other is at the breaking point, and a doubling of the emotional, intellectual, and moral resources that a child can draw on.’ – Heather Mac Donald

‘Consumer culture needs us to be impulsive, while our political culture fears that we will ever develop discipline.’ – Frankie Boyle

‘Of necessity, a scientist typically studies one incredibly tiny sliver of some biological system, totally ensconced within one discipline, because even figuring out how one sliver works is really hard.’ – Robert Sapolsky

‘If I wasn’t doing this, I’d be working in a chippy. Cricket can change your life. It can teach you a lot about discipline and life in general.’ – Moeen Ali

‘The band is built on fire and venom, as is the energy that goes into racing – but it is a completely different discipline. They are very similar in a lot of ways but poles apart in others.’ – Keith Flint

‘The stress on the moral basis of policy and action, belief in unity and discipline, faith in a synthesis of heritage and science, and promotion of the rule of law and of education – all of it is located in a partnership between citizen and government.’ – Ram Nath Kovind

‘I have nothing but unreserved praise for our armed forces, paramilitary and internal security forces. Their sacrifices to preserve the integrity and unity of our country present a saga of unparalleled courage and discipline.’ – Ram Nath Kovind

‘Neurosurgery is a new challenge with each case. The preparation, the discipline, the technical skills and the need to perform at your very best under pressure provide the same adrenaline rush I had in football.’ – Myron Rolle

‘All young men should have a certain time in the Army, instead of going running around wild for a few years after school. They would learn discipline and they would learn a good trade. It would be a good opportunity.’ – Vera Lynn

‘My childhood was all about discipline, hard work and training.’ – Angad Bedi

‘In Queen Mary’s, which was an all-girls’ college, I learned discipline, hard work and to be competitive. But at Madras Film Institute, I learned about the world, being free and knowledgeable, and thinking beyond oneself.’ – Suhasini Maniratnam

‘Craft and art and discipline in what you do will make you happy.’ – Erika Jayne

‘I really worked hard to get myself in shape, just from a physical standpoint when you’re able to bring your body down and have the discipline to get into shape the way I was, it’s really a spiritual journey as well.’ – Rashad Evans

‘Not head coach – Assistant would be very attractive, but I don’t think I have the discipline to deal with all the egos and personalities a head coach has to deal with.’ – Robert Parish

‘Chris, boy, was he ever resilient, and was he ever someone who would never give up and had tremendous discipline, and he set goals and met them.’ – Dana Reeve

‘Discipline is a big thing for me, you have to respect the workplace and your team-mate.’ – Paul Lambert

‘What drew me to conservatism years ago was the fact that it gave discipline a slightly higher status than virtue. This meant it could not be subverted by passing notions of the good.’ – Shelby Steele

‘Mentally, I am quite good at self discipline.’ – Noel Edmonds

‘I do not want to gain a reputation for lacking discipline because I always look to play within the laws.’ – James Haskell

‘Before you start a practicing regimen, you have to be aware that the study of music is a lifelong process-it’s a discipline. And the key to mastering any discipline is consistency.’ – John Petrucci

‘All kids have the dream of becoming a professional soccer player, but to become that you need so many things. You have to have talent, be hard working, have support, have discipline. You also have to have ability, physical and technical, and understand the game.’ – Raul

‘Songs don’t just suddenly arrive like a taxi you have to work on them and you have to put a lot of time and energy and self discipline into creating that kind of thing.’ – Chris de Burgh

‘Certainly, in the case of my dad, who was the oldest son, heir apparent and namesake, there was harsh discipline and humiliation which Donald, seven and a half years younger, was able to witness and learn very specific lessons from: don’t be like Freddy, don’t be kind, don’t be generous, don’t have ‘frivolous’ interests.’ – Mary L. Trump

‘When I was starting, I was working with actors who came up through the rep system, and they understood the discipline required: you were never late for rehearsal, you were never not ready to go on, you were always prepared; it was about showing respect to the rest of the company.’ – Michael Ball

‘Until I read Neill’s book, ‘Summerhill,’ I thought there were only two ways to bring up children, either with authoritarian discipline or with permissiveness. Either way, hopefully, applied with love. Now I know there is a third way: teaching a child self*regulation, not by coercion or by abandoning discipline, but by freedom with responsibility.’ – Orson Bean

‘I live below my means. I think that’s a good discipline because you never can tell.’ – Sixto Rodriguez

‘You know, martial arts is all about respect and discipline and it’s always been about that. But again, people are starting to forget that, people are missing that, and this is where I believe I can help and it’s good for our sport.’ – Alexander Volkanovski

‘The discipline it takes to train and push past discomfort and continually grow through both trial and error and critique are things that translate really well into the process of running for office.’ – Sharice Davids

‘Boxing gives you discipline, it helps you physically and mentally.’ – Anthony Yarde

‘Cycling is unique in that in any other sport I’d be in a different weight category or discipline. What I do is a different sport to what Chris Froome does.’ – Mark Cavendish

‘The Ramaswami case and subsequent attempts to impeach judges have demonstrated the total impracticality of that instrument to discipline judges.’ – Prashant Bhushan

‘I do admire actors who manage to lose huge amounts of weight for roles: you have to have astonishing discipline to do that to your body and maintain it for a certain length of time before letting yourself go back to normal.’ – Anna Madeley

‘In theatre there is a certain discipline that you have to follow, and you have to be experienced to be performing in front of a live audience. It is satisfying to me.’ – Pankaj Kapur

‘I hope my story could become an inspiration of determination, discipline, faith and hardwork.’ – Pia Wurtzbach

‘Online chess is very popular and cool, don’t get me wrong, but it is a different discipline.’ – Anish Giri

‘One of the things I always tell people when they’re going to get married is, in order to have a lasting relationship, there are a couple of things you need to discuss. One is finance, obviously. Then there’s religion, politics, kids, how you discipline kids, and how many kids you want to have.’ – Jen Lilley

‘JROTC students make a commitment to serve their communities at an early age, and they learn the discipline and habits to be future leaders.’ – Conor Lamb

‘The cognitive development of the players is enormously important, as well as social competence and character values such as discipline and teamwork.’ – Joachim Low

‘Being at meal time on time is simple but important for the team. You need the discipline. Every top club is like that. With Arsenal and Villarreal it was the same – strict.’ – Robert Pires

‘Definitely Bollywood needs to learn from Hollywood – in terms of discipline… In Hollywood, everybody is very punctual, very focussed and very accurate. It is very professional.’ – Gurpreet Ghuggi

‘On returning to India I took up a short assignment as assistant to the secretary of jury at the International Film Festival, and Satyajit Ray was the chairman. He was on the lookout for an assistant, and that’s how I went to Kolkata. I learnt a lot – the discipline, conceptualization, planning your shots.’ – Suhasini Mulay

‘A lot of hard work goes into making a great wine. It requires that same type of dedication and discipline that goes into getting to the Super Bowl as an NFL player.’ – Charles Woodson

‘The most important thing is that you can make tough decisions, discipline people when you need to, but also create a spirit to get the ultimate thing you’re aiming for, which is winning enough games.’ – Chris Hughton

‘I’ve always vowed that if I had a child, I would treat him right. My father was a perfect model for me because everything that he did wrong, or everything that he did I would just do the opposite. Which would be the right thing to do. So that is being in your son’s life 100 percent, give them love, give them affection, give them discipline.’ – Daniel Jacobs

‘The secret is to listen, open your mind, listen to the pros. With the help of the UFC’s Performance Institute, too. Listening to my coaches and listening to my body, too. Having discipline. It’s not just listening, too, because sometimes people have the knowledge but don’t know how to use it. You need to be able to put that to practice.’ – Glover Teixeira

‘There are a lot of guidelines and regulations that come with being a military kid and being raised on a military base. It gives you a structure and discipline on what not to do and right and wrong. I’ve been used to it my whole life.’ – John Collins

‘If you don’t love your job, you can’t maintain the discipline in playing that many years. It starts with the love, discipline and taking care of your body. Understanding the older you get, you have to pay attention to every single detail.’ – Zaza Pachulia

‘This game is not only about putting the ball in the basket. It’s the behavior, discipline, approach, preparation. Play with purpose and lead with purpose.’ – Zaza Pachulia

‘Bob taught me extraordinary discipline and love.’ – Ann Reinking

‘I believe this: There is a lot of discipline to be derived from freedom.’ – Joe Maddon

‘When you are working with a highly professional, motivated group that is accountable, the more freedom you give that group, the more discipline you’re going to get in return.’ – Joe Maddon

‘I didn’t only play Lurch. I also was ‘Thing,’ the hand that came up and on-camera every now and then. You should try acting with only one hand sometime. Great discipline.’ – Ted Cassidy

‘Budgets don’t balance themselves, it takes fiscal discipline, and both the union and the government will have to show taxpayers that discipline.’ – Pierre Poilievre

‘My father was a well-known sportsperson during his time. He brought me up under strict discipline like the ex-Armyman that he was.’ – Victor Banerjee

‘The NFL is one of the first places where many star players finally see discipline. Finally have an authoritative male figure: Buck stops here, I make all the calls, you will not get an opinion.’ – Colin Cowherd

‘I love the discipline of shooting film, because you don’t cover everything, and I’m glad that I learned that way.’ – Lynne Ramsay

‘There are loads of good principles we’ve lost as a nation. Discipline. Organisation. Respect. I was brought up with those.’ – Tony Pulis

‘Discipline and respect and hard work are not bad words. I expect that from everybody – especially the players who are in fortunate and very lucky positions.’ – Tony Pulis

‘From getting good grades when I was growing up to finishing college to respecting my elders to the discipline that I have – everything can go back to martial arts.’ – Tecia Torres

‘My main objective is to introduce students to dance and the other arts, not necessarily for them to pursue, but as a method of discipline. When they learn to apply themselves freely they can learn to enjoy themselves and apply that tool of discipline to other interests.’ – Paula Kelly

‘Few have had the good fortune I have had. My start in the business was with people like Peter Brooks and Michael Redgrave. Also, growing up as I did with a father in the military taught me to accept discipline and responsibility.’ – Nicholas Hammond

‘I had to learn Odissi dance and it is a very difficult discipline.’ – Jaya Prada

‘The detailing on the sets of ‘Gandhi’ was very minute. There was immense discipline and nothing was taken for granted.’ – Rohini Hattangadi

‘As a child, I would attend shakhas, and the discipline and love for the motherland it instilled in me has helped immensely.’ – Mahesh Manjrekar

‘I took time off and realized that what I was lacking was the discipline in trying to write a script.’ – Lee Isaac Chung

‘I’m the disciplinarian. Nick doesn’t discipline. The cat can do whatever it wants. It can scratch on the furniture. It can do whatever it wants and Nick doesn’t do anything about it. So I have to yell. I’m the bad cop. He’s the good cop.’ – Bridget Marquardt

‘Most players, they want to be coached, they want discipline, and they want an environment in which they can play their best.’ – Tom Thibodeau