Disciplined Person Quotes

#1. You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.

Lynn Davies

#2. I'm kind of a disciplined person but I don't take anything too seriously. And I think a lot of that had to do with the raising my parents gave me and my sister - Veronica Cartwright, who's an actress in her own right.

Angela Cartwright

#3. I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.

Steve Earle

#4. Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.

Erika Slezak

#5. I'm a very, very disciplined person.

Marina And The Diamonds

#6. A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

Vince Lombardi

#7. If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you start it, you finish it. Yes sir, no ma'am. And you've got to have that kind of structure in your life. It kind of helped me be that disciplined person that I am, whether it's with workouts, film or just the game of football.

Robert Griffin III

#8. The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

Dean Smith

#9. So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company.

Eriq La Salle

#10. I am a disciplined person. When I am writing, I write for 7-8 hours.

Amish Tripathi

#11. Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.

Thomas Szasz

#12. I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

Hanif Kureishi

#13. I am a highly disciplined person. I get up at seven every morning and, still in my pajamas, sit down at my desk where my checkered ring binders and my fountain pen are ready for use. I try to write two pages every day.

Orhan Pamuk

#14. A self-disciplined person defines success by effectiveness.

Michael Andrews

#15. With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?

Joseph Pilates

#16. A disciplined person is one who can do the right thing at the right time in the right way with the right spirit.

John Ortberg

#17. The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose 'gift' is a reaching out toward his most profound personal potential.

Joseph C Zinker

#18. In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

Roger Stone

#19. Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.

Margaret Atwood

#20. Totally uneventful. It was a very successful first flight. To be honest, it was a little bit boring.

Fernando Alonso

#21. I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.

Anne Lamott

#22. Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

Howard Nemerov

#23. There is no actual need of humans to be a pious like an angel, it's a big chase to be a human and for me it's enough to be a human.

M.H. Rakib

#24. A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline.

John Dewey

#25. I've spent a lifetime practicing, becoming who I must be to survive. Hiding in plain sight, always acting, always playing a part. There are times when I fear that I'll lose me, my true self, in the haze of the facade. But that fear doesn't matter to anyone besides myself.

Sara B. Larson

#26. Part of the myth is that these model citizens have been given nothing by the government and have made it on their own. The American Dream is that any honest, self-disciplined, hard-working person can do the same.

George Lakoff

#27. As an actor, it's hard to direct because, suddenly, you're not around. The thing which I hate about directing is the waiting game, but you've really got to wait it out and be resilient and keep it going and keep everybody motivated.

Danny Huston

#28. War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#29. Every time you make a choice that expresses respect for life, you bring a little more love in your body, into your family, into our society, and into a world that is calling out for this blessing.

John Robbins

#30. My father died when I was seven, leaving a widow and five sons, ranging in age from five to seventeen. My mother was the most highly-disciplined and hardest working person I have ever known, and this, combined with her love and gentleness, enabled her to make a success of each of her children.

Arthur Lewis

#31. Contemplative traditions on the whole have historically emphasized subjective, first-person investigation of the nature and functions of consciousness, by training the mind to focus in a disciplined way on its own internal states.

Dalai Lama XIV

#32. We live in a world of media that are constantly telling us it is only the shape of your body that matters to how attractive you are, and that's silly.

Guy Branum

#33. A person who refuses to manage himself and discipline his flesh will be disciplined and taught by life itself.

Sunday Adelaja

#34. Yielding flexibility is a virtue of an ever-expanding heart.

Molly Friedenfeld

#35. Being disciplined with an ego that makes you to feel like you can never be disciplined by any other person is "indiscipline".

Israelmore Ayivor

#36. Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it's different, but because it's the same.

Bob Goff

#37. We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings emersed in a human experience.

Wayne W. Dyer

#38. I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

Dean Smith

#39. I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you have to survive. It could be done so discreetly that the object of such care would not suspect, any more than she would suspect the sentence of death itself.

Alice Munro

#40. In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.

Socrates

#41. Saddest of all God's creatures in the world is the religious person who has disciplined himself to outward obedience but who has no inward love to God.

Walter Chantry

#42. What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

Martin Luther King Jr.