Discipline Quotes

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines.

Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. And this undoubtedly will be the case unless they hold fast both the doctrine, spirit, and discipline with which they first set out.

Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and permits truth, virtue, and integrity to rule our minds instead.

Discipline, as understood by a warrior, is creative, open, and produces freedom. It is the ability to face the unknown, transforming the feeling of knowing into reverent astonishment; of considering things that exceed the scope of our habits, and daring to face the only war that is worthwhile: The battle for awareness.

Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.

With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army.

Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.

Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.

It is important to receive God's arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God's arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

There is no difference between a hero and a coward in what they feel. It’s what they do that makes them different. The hero and the coward feel exactly the same, but you have to have the discipline to do what a hero does and to keep yourself from doing what the coward does.

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

To live a disciplined life, and to accept the result of that discipline as the will of God - that is the mark of a man.