Discipline

A person who does not get attached to anything, and never forgets to do his duty, will achieve everything.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off. If my mother's friend had said, 'Never mind, it's too much work,' I'd have blown my top, because I want to beat this damn thing, as long as I've gone this far. I can't just leave it after I've found out so much about it. I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.

No one was born a reader we learn to build the habit of reading.

Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished to endure unpleasantness discomfort and frustration.

The sound of diesel fuel rushing through grimy pistons and cylinders below a morning-fogged window bored through his ears like a deep-water drill bit, and the thump of his own heartbeat cursed him for breaking one of his many rules.

Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.

Best to introduce yourself to patience now, so that it might find you when you call upon it later.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they’ve written, they write some more.

Excellence is not a history, but a habit.

Writing is like giving yourself homework, really hard homework, every day, for the rest of your life. You want glamorous? Throw glitter at the computer screen.

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

Just ticking boxes is not the ultimate goal here. Embracing a culture of teamwork and discipline is. And if we recognised the opportunity, the two-minute WHO checklist is just a start.

Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately lies flat and starts to dig a hole in the ground beside him.

Focus on the systematic process and the things you have control.

Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.

When you fall for your appetite too early, you may not be able to endure to the end.

It is one thing to know what should be done, it is another to do it.