Discipline Quotes

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

John Locke

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Jim Rohn

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Frank Herbert

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Edwin P. Whipple

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

Edmund Burke

If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.

Critias of Athens

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

Charles Horton Cooley

The only discipline that last is self discipline.

Bum Phillips

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

Buddha

It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.

Lewis Wallace

A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

Herbert Spencer

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

Seneca

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.

Bette Davis

Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.

Marie Chapian

That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.

Robert Blair

Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

Maria Montessori

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Napoleon Hill

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Tyron Edwards

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Julie Andrews

Discipline your son, and he will give you peace; he will bring delight to your soul

Bible

Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.

John Erskine

Good free verse is not at all easy to write, for there is no repetitive beat to lull the reader's critical faculty, much pattern and discipline is to be found in it, though the pattern of sounds and choice of exact words, gives it its beauty.

Marjorie Boulton

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