quotations about discipline
Discipline is like a vaccine. It inflicts lesser pain now to avoid greater pain later.
DAN DORIANI
The Life of a God-Made Man
The man under no discipline is like the spoiled child whom nothing satisfies.
CHESTER B. LORD
Industrial Leadership, 1921
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
A Guide to Discipline
He who hath not Discipline is like a race-horse without a rider.
JOHN BALLOU NEWBROUGH
Oahspe
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
attributed, "Greatest Vince Lombardi Quotes,", Official NFL website
Discipline is like a muscle: the more you practice it, the bigger it gets.
STEVE DEMASCO
The Shaolin Way
Discipline is like an addiction. Once you get disciplined then it is difficult to get rid of that. But that addiction we have to develop. Each pleasure of life can be experienced with discipline. It is totally wrong concept that discipline induces restriction and hampers joy. Truth is that it helps to experience joy in more proper way.
PARIKSHIT DESHMUKH
Applied Strengths of Mind
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
Improvement Era
A person without discipline is like a ship without a rudder in the storm of life.
ROBERT ELIAS NAJEMY
Universal Philosophy
Discipline is the duty and the hope of all who would enjoy the benefits of society and of instruction.
JOHN H. A. BOMBERGER
"Church Discipline: Its Province and Use"
Discipline is learning what to do, when to do it and in what manner it should be done. For the Armed Forces, discipline is the standard of personal deportment, work requirement, courtesy, appearance and ethical conduct that will enable all to perform the mission with optimum efficiency.
U.S. DEPT. of DEFENSE
The Armed Forces Officer
The greatest influence of discipline is to repress the weaknesses which grow out of individuality.
G. BURNETT
Training in Night Movements
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
Dragons
Ultimately, any type of discipline is flawed because it keeps the person who is being disciplined inept. As long as the experience is happening to you, while it is imposed on you, it is not your dream. When discipline is administered externally, the participant is dependent on the administrator of the discipline. When discipline is administered internally, the athlete becomes a victim of the structure of the discipline. Either way, only the discipline, not the dream, is being pursued.
CECILE REYNAUD
She Can Coach!
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. A free discipline controls the individual by appealing to his reason and conscience, and therefore to his self-respect; while an unfree control works upon some lower phase of the mind, and so tends to degrade him. It is freedom to be disciplined in as rational a manner as you are fit for.
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY
Human Nature and the Social Order
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
The Path to Enlightenment
Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone’s watching or not.
MICHAEL J. FOX
Esquire, Dec. 2007
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
Santa Fe Employes' Magazine, 1909
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
TERTULLIAN
attributed, Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
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
Illinois School Journal, Sep. 1886