Quotes on Discipline

It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.

Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.

Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

Discipline has within it the potential for creating future miracles.

An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress

Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.

Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child.

Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness.....Rather than persecuting yourself or feeling that something terribly wrong is happening, right there in the moment of sadness and longing, could you relax and touch the limitless space of the human heart?

By "moral discipline," I mean self-discipline based on moral standards. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. It rejects the self-absorbed life in favor of developing character worthy of respect and true greatness through Christlike service.

The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.

Creativity needs discipline and freedom.

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

Discipline means we don't let go of the things we know we should be doing, we do them!

God does not discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.

Success is created through the performance of a few small daily disciplines that stack up over time to produce achievements far beyond anything you could have ever planned for.

An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather primarily a lived and historically changing set of distinctive social practices. It is in these practices that 'content' is generated, debated, and transformed via certain distinctive ways of thinking, talking, valuing, acting, and, often, writing and reading.