discipline Quotes

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

I learned to focus my energy on high-quality, long-term projects rather than lower-quality projects with quicker payoffs.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Maybe it was the challenge of flight, the opportunity to fly, the competition of summer camp and the inspiration and discipline of West Point. I think all of those things helped me to develop a dedication and inspired me to get ahead.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, 'No.'

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.