Discipline Quotes

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to turn away all the peripherals.

In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history.

Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.

The people that were socially awkward from my generation, they all had paper routes and that taught them the discipline of work.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

With self-discipline, all things are possible

Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless.

I'm going to try to stay buff as long as I can, but it takes a lot of discipline and staying away from your favorite junk food!.

Discipline means looking beyond the appearance, beyond that which is visible and acknowledging one Infinite Cause.

In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in.

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

Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.

When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.

Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.

Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally.

Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.

Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.

There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.

Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline?

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.

In the end, the greatest victory we can know is the result of all of our hard work, discipline, and dedication: the realization of our dreams.

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

It's easy to be disciplined when you have no freedoms.

Hunger is good discipline.

When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

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

We don't drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.

Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions.

Acting is a different discipline. On stage I'm free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.

When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text.

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.

Many dogs grow up without rules or boundaries. They need exercise, discipline and affection in that order.

Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline... too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with... something about yourself, your career, your spouse

The key to success is having some discipline, .. You don't have to be rocket scientist.

I prefer the discipline of knowledge to the anarchy of ignorance.

I believe you can have discipline without fear. I believe that you can have a cohesive and inclusive band where students and parents feel welcome to express their concerns or opinions.

I'm interested in Buddhism. Of all the organized religions, that to me is the only one that makes even vague sense. I just don't have the discipline for that kind of practice.

All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline.