Quotes About Lack Of Self Discipline

#1. I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of self-discipline. My daughters do everything better than I do - they're smarter, more beautiful, happier. What if they end up better at anorexia, too?

Ayelet Waldman

#2. Therefore, any social or political system in which people get things they don't earn, or are rewarded for lack of self-discipline or for immoral behavior, is simply an immoral system.

George Lakoff

#3. It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.

Alfred Jodl

#4. Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

Samora Machel

#5. Rebellion, waywardness, lack of discipline, confusion, and conflict prevent happy relationships within the home. But God is interested in your family, your marriage, your children. He shows us the ideals and the goals for the family.

Billy Graham

#6. Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#7. Given the prevailing lack of discipline, it would have been impossible to use Congolese machine-gunners to defend the base from air attack: they did not know how to handle their weapons and did not want to learn,

Che Guevara

#8. If you choose to become a smoker, you are an idiot, and you may lack the discipline and intelligence to be a successful entrepreneur.

Gene Simmons

#9. Lack of discipline. First of all, I think some of them fail because they just don't have natural talent, and they shouldn't even be in the business to begin with.

Michael Flutie

#10. Bureaucratic cultures arise to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline, which arise from having the wrong people on the bus in the first place.

James C. Collins

#11. Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

Robert Baden-Powell

#12. I kind of peak at how far I can push my body, and then I run out of determination for the habit and start easing off. It's really just a lack of focus and discipline.

Sean Astin

#13. Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.

Stephen Covey

#14. Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability.

Terry Bradshaw

#15. I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.

Barbara Kingsolver

#16. When soldiers lack discipline, the fault lies with their lord commander.

George R R Martin

#17. Your discipline or lack of discipline will protect you from or expose you to disaster. Practice discipline. Be consistent.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#18. The least lack of discipline starts to erode our self-esteem.

Jim Rohn

#19. I've seen Christians who are faithful to the church of God, who frequently demonstrate genuine enthusiasm for the things of God, and who are committed to the preaching of the Word of God, yet who trivialize their effectiveness for the kingdom of God through lack of discipline.

Donald S. Whitney

#20. I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.

Cameron Diaz

#21. I believe in discipline. You can forgive incompetence. You can forgive lack of ability. But one thing you cannot ever forgive is lack of discipline.

Forrest Gregg

#22. I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

Ritchie Blackmore

#23. Children are inspiring because they are open and a lot more intelligent than grown ups. They also have contagious playfulness and joy. For me as an artist the challenge of having a child is having to think ahead a lot more. Which in a way is good, since I sometimes lack self-discipline.

Olof Arnalds

#24. 'Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.

China Mieville

#25. Traders lose because the game is hard, or out of ignorance, or lack of discipline or because of both.

Alexander Elder

#26. We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning
of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of the citizens in formulating and implementing the Party's policy.

Nicolae Ceausescu

#27. The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

James C. Collins

#28. Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.

Marie Chapian

#29. You don't know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don't know that the rod, discipline, violence, the state and government can only be sustained because of you and because of your lack of socially creative powers that develop order within liberty!

Gustav Landauer

#30. Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.

Julie Burchill

#31. In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.

Maya Angelou

#32. My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

Mary Garden

#33. The problem for the King is just how strict
The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law
And discipline should be in school and state ...

Robert Frost

#34. The premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the obverse of the lack of attention given to life situations in which the meaning of facts, ideas, principles, and problems is vitally brought home.

John Dewey

#35. Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Nelson Mandela

#36. Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.

Eli Broad

#37. The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline.

Oswald Chambers

#38. The scientific spirit, the contempt of tradition, the lack of discipline and the exaltation of the individual have very nearly made an end of art. It can only be restored by the love of beauty, the reverence for tradition, the submission to discipline and the rigor of self-control.

Kenyon Cox

#39. Overtraining is the biggest problem incurred by runners who lack the experience or discipline to cope with their own enthusiasm.

Marty Liquori

#40. Our lives is almost always a result of those things we habitually think and those things we habitually do. Life is the fruit of discipline, or lack of it. We are our habits. For example, you cannot separate Tiger

Matthew Kelly

#41. Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.

Criss Jami

#42. The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines.

Harry Wong

#43. Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

Jim Rohn

#44. The failure in reading -the omnipresent verbalism- of those who have not been trained in the arts of grammar and logic shows how lack of such discipline results in slavery to words rather than mastery of them.

Mortimer J. Adler

#45. The lack of monetary discipline has become a hallmark of unfettered globalization. Central banks have failed to provide a stable underpinning to world financial markets and to an increasingly asset-dependent global economy.

Stephen S. Roach