Quotes about discipline

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

— Julie Andrews

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

— Aristotle

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

No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. [Proverbs 29:15]

— Bible

No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.

— John S. Bonnell

Temperance is a bridle of gold.

— Burton

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

— Miguel De Cervantes

Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.

— Marie Chapian

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

— Claudius

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

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

— William J. Durant

Self-command is the main discipline.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

— Epictetus

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

— William Feather

Without discipline, there is no life at all.

— Katharine Hepburn

Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.

— Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

— Abraham J. Heschel

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

— Horace

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

— Alfred Jarry

He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory.

— Jyrus

What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are. What we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

— Henry Parry Liddon

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

— Louis XIV

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

— James Russell Lowell

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

— Robert De Niro

If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

— William Penn

The only discipline that last is self discipline.

— Bum Phillips

A colt is worth little if it does not break its halter.

— Proverb

Who loves well, chastises well.

— French Proverb

He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

— Icelandic Proverb

To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.

— Jean Francois Regnard

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

— Bob Richards

Discipline is not a nasty word.

— Pat Riley

It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

— Wilma Rudolph

Anybody who gets away with something will come back to get away with a little bit more.

— Harold Schoenberg

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

— Sir Walter Scott

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.

— Seneca

Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.

— Hannah Whitall Smith

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.

— Roy L. Smith

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

— Tertullian

Better to be pruned to grow than cut up to burn.

— John Trapp

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

— Barbara Tuchman

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

— George Washington

To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Discipline Is Just Choosing Between What You Want Now And What You Want the Most

— Source Unknown