Order is heaven’s first law.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

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

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

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

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.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

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

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

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.

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

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

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

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.

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

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Every day is a major balancing act that I have to figure out and coordinate.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

Differences exist in practice and organization between the Lord’s Church and man-made institutions.

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.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

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

Before beginning, plan carefully.

The only thing wrong with the NBA – or any other professional sport, for that matter – is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

There is moderation even in excess.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

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.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

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

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

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.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.