Order is heaven’s first law.

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time – it’s very routine. I’m not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it’s cool; it’s good for me.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

I’m from the generation that had the boys‘ door and the girls‘ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

From the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

Apart from the fact that any hardy exercise conduces much to the training and formation of a soldier, pig-sticking tends to give a man what is called a ‚stalker’s eye,‘ but which, par excellence, is the soldier’s eye.

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

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

One aim of the Boy Scouts scheme is to revive amongst us, if possible, some of the rules of the knights of old.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

The rules are there for a reason.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

I do not raise brats!

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

Service of any type requires preparation.