This is the secret to mastering any discipline: as you conquer one, you’ll find it easier to tackle another.

With determination, discipline and hard work all dreams become a reality.

This important research finding is a major breakthrough for the new field of Conservation Medicine, which is a new discipline that brings together health professionals and wildlife scientists to examine links between human, ecosystem, and...

Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like...

Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline.

We may well find that if we are to fulfill God’s mandate on earth, we will need to communicate less often so we can communicate more. We will need to forsake the ease and the...

The assistant commander at any post is supposed to be a ruthless son of a bitch.

I can’t think of anything that anyone has ever accomplished without having some sort of self-discipline. Without knowing how to work for it. Without learning how to earn it. I talk to my friends who...

When we procrastinate, we also put a hold on happiness.

As one would expect, the Pope’s schedule is quite disciplined—he wakes up at four o’clock each morning and runs on the treadmill for an hour. I’m totally kidding. Nobody’s knees have time for that.

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

So, what does it take to live a more excellent life? It takes a new way of thinking, speaking and acting. It takes a change in habits, and a better understanding of who you are...

As she put it, she knew of nothing so ravishing as having a child whom she could whip whenever she was in a bad mood.(“The Queen Fantasque”)

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.

You have to be so disciplined that even your distractions become focused.

What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.

Although this may be a most difficult thing, if one will do it, it can be done. There is nothing that one should suppose cannot be done.

Your child’s needs are far more profound than his aberrant behavior. Remember, his behavior does not just spring forth uncaused. His behavior – the things he says and does – reflects his heart. If you...

It’s always been important for writers to be disciplined but now even more so. In addition to the traditional displacement activities like cleaning the fridge or eating cake writers are faced with a plethora of...

Staring at the can clock never influence the appointed time that God has ordained for your manifestation. Hold your peace, but don’t shift focus.

Discipline isn’t a dirty word. Far from it. Discipline is the one thing that separates us from chaos and anarchy. Discipline implies timing. It’s the precursor to good behavior, and it never comes from bad...

Je mehr Kultur, desto weniger Freiheit, das ist ein wahres Wort.

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

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

Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.

He has become a vocal leader, he works hard and he handles discipline.

[Discipline i]t’s the ability to overcome the urge to grab the bright and shiny and interesting to finish what you’ve started.

Enjoy what you can, endure what you must

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

If you’ve ever tried meditation and didn’t stay with it, I recommend you try it again. Some time has passed. In the interim, you may have developed the discipline of mind or the patience you...

Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.

The cornerstone of the Roman legionnaires’ astonishing fighting spirit can be attributed to their training.

Genius is eternal patience.

Whether you are trying to finish a race or a book or that hard conversation you’ve been avoiding, the training leading up to that event is what makes it possible to face the fear &...

Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage.

Train your Children with Patience, Correct them in Love, Don’t Discipline them out of hatred

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

It was more than just material prosperity. America in 1960 was a country where restraint and boundaries were the natural conditions in all arenas. People married younger and stayed married; even with those added twenty-eight...

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

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

Because discipline is misunderstood or not as valued as it has been, the United States—and some might argue the world—is experiencing a cultural leadership crisis.

Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect,...

You are either going to go through the pain of disappointment or discipline in your life. The latter makes the pain worth it.

So often, children are punished for being human. Children are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad attitudes, yet we adults have them all the time! We think if we...

In Astrology, the moon, among its other meanings, has that of “the common people,” who submit (they know not why) to any independent will that can express itself with sufficient energy. The people who guillotined...

I wouldn’t put him in the five-hole if I didn’t think he was (capable). I think he’s got discipline. He’s got a nice swing and I think he could be a very productive guy in...

Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it’s always because they know why.

We have not advanced very far in our spiritual lives if we have not encountered the basic paradox of freedom, to the effect that we are most free when we are bound. But not just...

Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously communicate requires that one’s mind not be a blank slate but already properly...

Don’t you just love it when you’re disciplining your kids and God whispers, “This is good. I hope you’re listening so you can apply this same truth to your life.