Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Winters

Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

M. Scott Peck

With total discipline we can solve all problems.

M. Scott Peck

Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.

James Russell Lowell

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Marc Maron

I seem to offend everybody. I just never got into the universe. I don't seem to have a tremendous amount of discipline or patience with having to follow a story that is really multi-leveled and science-fiction.

Natalie Portman

I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.

Paulo Coelho

Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you'd sink into chaos.

May Sarton

When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes...By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the meaning of discipline and its reward: freedom and power.

Dave Lewis

The game has to be played on the ice and you have to have passion, discipline and patience to find a way and we didn't do that.

The fundamental premise of our discipline is that over the long term, if you own very high-quality growth companies, you will eventually get rewarded. But patience is sometimes required.

Louisa May Alcott

When I had youth I had no money; now I have the money I have no time; and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life. I suppose it's the discipline I need; but it's rather hard to love the things I do, and see them go by because duty chains me to my galley. If I ever come into port with all sails set, that will be my reward perhaps.

Julie Burchill

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.

Paulo Coelho

Well, let's distinguish religion from spirituality. I am Catholic, so religion for me is a way of having discipline and collective worship with persons who share the same mystery.

Rachel Carson

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.

Pattie Maes

We like to invent new disciplines or look at new problems, and invent bandwagons rather than jump on them.

Josh Lucas

I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

Luke Evans

With everything you do as an actor, you obviously know the full story. But the person watching it doesn't, necessarily. So, you just have to discipline yourself to wipe the slate clean as you go along.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

Freya Stark

Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.

Gustav Mahler

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

John Locke

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Jim Rohn

The most valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose upon yourself.

Jim Rohn

Ambitious people know that everything they do and every discipline they adhere to, form the links in the chain of events that will lead them to their final destination.

Jim Rohn

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

Jim Rohn

One discipline always leads to another discipline.

Jim Rohn

The smallest of disciplines, practiced every day, start an incredible process that can change our lives forever.

George Lucas

One of the things that will never get explained in the films is how Ben was able to retain his identity, because it happened somewhere between the third and fourth movies. I set up that this is a discipline that he learned from Yoda; Yoda told him how to do that.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.

Joan Crawford

I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?

Joan Collins

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.

Jimmy Nail

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 Iovine

If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.