One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

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.

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.

Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

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

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.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline.