Armistead Maupin Quotes

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.

Discipline is creating the situation.

I feel 21. I've looked after myself and take my football seriously.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

I am a bit obsessive about tidiness. I need to make my bed in the morning and leave it perfectly made up.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

When I was very young, I used to clean up after my parents. If I stay in a hotel, I make the bed and clean the room when I get up, even the bathroom mirror, for which I carry a tiny bottle of ammonia.

There's a level of immaturity to people who just can't clean up after themselves.

My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line, in its place.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

I don't like to see mess.

Get your mind right, get your spirit right, and get your body right. And keep it there. That requires working out; that requires fasting, eating well, prayer, and getting to know who you are. And not bending.

I can't leave anywhere without making my bed; it's ingrained.

I'm a neat freak. I find I work best when I feel organised and together, and as I work from home, that means my house is always so tidy!

I just cannot stand an unmade bed.

Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.

In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.

I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.

Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.