discipline

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

As you grow in true spiritual power and understanding you will actually find that many outer rules and regulations will become unnecessary; but this will be because you have really risen above them; never, never, because you have fallen below them. This point in your development, where your understanding of Truth enables you to dispense with certain outer props and regulations, is the Spiritual Coming of Age. When you really are no longer spiritually a minor, you will cease to need some of the outer observances that formerly seemed indispensable; but your resulting life will be purer, truer, freer, and less selfish than it was before; and that is the test.

I no longer fear the pain...I fear no release from this torture...knowing that I've hurt him and he can't forgive me...that he won't be able to make me his good girl again.

Discipline is a demand of life.

If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.

Discipline yourself to do what is necessary or you won't acquire the necessary...

Children cannot develop a sense of inner discipline if all of the control comes from the outside.

Alex understood such discipline. He knew the rarity of it, and the cost. And on the rare occasions when he happened to touch her, he did wonder what else she might have been, if she had not been so determined to be typical.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

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 million, there were fewer divorces in 1960 than there had been a decade earlier. People did not have children unless they were married__nly 2.5 percent of children were born out of wedlock, though the number in black households was disturbingly high__ome 20 percent.

Trams and disciplined people always reach their destinations!

When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart

Well, we come here to the Fastnesses mostly to learn what questions not to ask.""But you're the Answerers!""You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?""No__""To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.

Life demands discipline in order to succeed in it.

Make yourself a slave to good habits

You__e smarter than you look,_ I say to Raffe.__ut not as smart as he thinks,_ says Howler.__ can see discipline has broken down during your vacation,_ says Raffe.__eah, it__ all that lounging on the beach with nothing to do but drink and watch women.

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

For five years Isaac had been working eighteen hours a day.