David Hume Quotes

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

I always got my work done before playing.

I've been working since I was five!

I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.

My parents were strict and taught me the proper fundamentals that I would use in my life. They taught me commitment to work hard.

My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.

There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'

An essential part of teaching children to be disciplined and responsible is to have them learn to work.

Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.

Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.

When you're home-schooled, you have to have a certain level of work ethic. Otherwise, you don't get anything done.

My parents told me, 'Skating is a privilege, not a right, and school always comes first.'

Southern people are raised with a work ethic. My son is 5 years old and does chores. My mom was a dance teacher, and the training and discipline it takes to be a dancer I've carried with me in Hollywood.

I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing.

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

I've always been conscientious and hardworking. I've never wasted time.

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.

As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.