Quotes on Discipline

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 discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be.

The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speakers, the alloys in the receiver itself, but never to concern himself overmuch with putting out the program. The program is there; all he has to do is receive it as far as possible.

It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.

Through discipline, and determination one can change anything and everything about him - his habits, his outlook on life

Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.

Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.

New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works...images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. That is why the discipline of managing mental models - surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works - promises to be a major breakthrough for learning organizations.

It’s up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible. _x000D_ It’s a question of will and discipline.

If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y.

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.

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

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Although most executives pay lip service to the idea of hiring for cultural fit, few have the courage or discipline to make it the primary criteria for bringing someone into the company.

Momma was home. She was the most totally human, human being that I have ever known, and so very beautiful. Within our home, she was an abundance of love, discipline, fun, affection, strength, tenderness, encouragement, understanding, inspiration, support.

Discipline is doing what you are supposed to do in the best possible manner at the time you are supposed to do it.