#discipline

You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters. ↗

— Courtney Thorne Smith

#being #being responsible #disciplined #family #friends

He was too explosive for her to touch him so intimately. It would lead to the wrong things. And places he'd banned himself from. As her protector, he had to stay away from her. That was how it worked. This, he could not stray from. Not again. Even if it killed him. ↗

— Jennifer Lowery

#discipline #love #lust #protection #romance

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 behavior. People who associate discipline with punishment are wrong: with discipline, punishment is unnecessary. ↗

— Buck Brannaman

#timing #discipline

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. ↗

— Bette Davis

#discipline #parenhood #love

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 unsexy ways, every day. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#caring #discipline #freedom #love #people

Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

#discipline #emotional #humiliation #life #paralyzing

If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them. ↗

— John C. Maxwell

#discipline #motivation #change

If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering. ↗

— Jeff Goins

#inspirational #motivational #perseverance #struggle #inspirational

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#discipline #fly #free #kind #me

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

#day-to-day #discipline #fiction #fiction writing #highly