Friday 15 June 2012

Discipline - Quotes

A person without discipline is like a ship without a rudder in the storm of life. - Robert Elias Najemy

A person's attitude toward discipline is the measure of that person's own orientation to order. - Max van Manen

A sense of discipline is like the earth itself. It is the ground from which all good qualities can grow forth. - Tsoknyi Rinpoche

All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. - Hebrews 12:11

Always remember that discipline is like a two-edged sword; it is not only to correct children when they are wrong, but to direct them to a way that is right. - James Merritt

Children expect discipline. Even though discipline can be unpleasant, everyone who has experienced good discipline knows not only that he needed it, but also appreciates, and loves those who had the courage to give it to him! To attempt to raise a child without discipline is like trying to build a complex building without a blueprint, or like leaving the rebar out of concrete when it is poured, or deciding not to install the steel beams and girders into a skyscraper – you steal its spine – you create a disaster. - Zester Hatfield

Corrective discipline is like surgery – it corrects something that's gone wrong in the body so that more serious injury doesn't result. - Mark Dever & Paul Alenxander

Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph. - Alexis Carrel

Discipline in its highest notion is not punishment or self-punishment. It is rather something seminal to the self. It is our foundation. It is our architecture. It gives us structure. It allows us to steer our energies and pull our wagon. - Noah Benshea

Discipline is a moral, mental, and physical state in which all ranks respond to the will of the leader. - Unknown

Discipline is a necessity, as a regulator of society, so that those who break its rules may be taught the necessity of obeying them. - Engineer Lockhart

Discipline is important simply because we live in an organized society where, if you have not learned life's requirements at early age, you will be taught later, not by those whose love tempers the lesson but by strangers who could not care less about the harm they do to your personality. - William E. Homan

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone’s watching or not. - Michael J. Fox

Discipline is learning what to do, when to do it and in what manner it should be done. - Unknown

Discipline is like a vaccine. It inflicts lesser pain now to avoid greater pain later. - Dan Doriani

Discipline is like moonlight to cool the wild mind that is burning with anger, attachment, ignorance, jealousy and so forth. One becomes calm, concentrated, and magnificent, towering over ordinary beings like Mount Meru rising above the world. Others will be drawn to one's strength and will find great inspiration and confidence in it. It pacifies our own being, and it brings peace into the way other people and sentient beings relate to us. Thus wise practitioners protect their discipline as they would their eyes. Bstan-Dzin-Rgya-Mtsho

Discipline is like sandpaper. It feels rough and abrasive when it's in motion, but the final result is a smooth and polished surface. - Jerry L. Parks

Discipline is like spinach. We may not care for it ourselves but feel sure it would be good for everybody else. - Unknown

Discipline is like the helm of a ship; it gives direction. - Zester Hatfield

Discipline is necessary and good. You can't raise successful children without it, but discipline should not repress or tyrannize. Discipline should lead to powerful habits of direction, work, and good judgment. Good discipline produces strength, not weakness; creativity, not banality; responsibility, not self-indulgence. - Zig Ziglar

Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony. - Charles F. Stanley 

Discipline is teaching a child the way he should go. Discipline, therefore, includes everything you do to help your child learn. Unfortunately, it's one of the most misunderstood words in the English language. Most people generally think of it as punishment or as something unpleasant. We need to understand that discipline is something you do for a child. Punishment is something you do to a child when discipline fails. Both Greek and Hebrew words denoting discipline include the meaning of chastening, correction, rebuke, upbringing, training, instruction, education, and reproof. The purpose of discipline is positive – to produce a whole person, free from the faults and handicaps that hinder maximum development. - Zig Ziglar

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. - Jim Rohn

Discipline is the duty and the hope of all who would enjoy the benefits of society and of instruction. - John H. A. Bomberger

Discipline is the process by which energy is directed along certain lines to the exclusion of others. Instead of being expended in many ways in unreflecting response to every stimulant applied, it is concentrated and made to focus itself upon a single point, or rather is confined within certain narrow limits. Discipline is often spoken of as acquired power. A more exact statement would seem to be that discipline is ability to make energy effective by confining it in a certain channel. - Geo P. Brown

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. - Roy L. Smith

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

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

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear. - Bernard Montgomery

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. - Brian Tracy

Fair and reasonable discipline is like a fence that provides protection and defines limits, demonstrating both care and concern. - Les Christie

Good discipline is more than just punishing or laying down the law. It is liking children and letting them see that they are liked. It is caring enough about them to provide good, clear rules for their protection. - Stanley Greenspan

Grabbing hold of the true concept of discipline is like trying to pick up liquid mercury – just when you think you have it cornered, it squirts from your grasp. - Thomas Mccafferty

He who hath not Discipline is like a race-horse without a rider. - John Ballou NewBrough

If love is the heart of the person, discipline is the skeleton, giving a person form and protection. - Henry Cloud & John Townsend

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us. Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak. - William Feather

It is not crazy to think of discipline as a chariot. Without discipline we would drive ourselves crazy. - Noah Benshea

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. - Zig Ziglar

I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. - Vince Lombardi

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild. - Immanuel Kant

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

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another. - George Washington

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline – and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck. - Carl Zuckmayer

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

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

Self-discipline is the free man's yoke. - John W. Gardner

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

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. - H. Jackson Brown Jr

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 Bridges

The best discipline is self-discipline. Without discipline, there is no life at all. - Unknown

The discipline of desire is the background of character. - John Locke

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. - Lee Iacocca

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. - Tryon Edwards

The man under no discipline is like the spoiled child whom nothing satisfies. - Chester B. Lord

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others. - Marcel Proust

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline. - Bum Phillips

The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself. - Unknown

When discipline is sown, like a good seed, it yields a harvest of things that fulfil and satisfy us--things that make us happy and release peace and joy in our lives. - Joyce Meyer

Without disciple we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems. - M. Scott Peck

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