DISCIPLINE QUOTES III

quotations about discipline

I need some discipline tonight
Don't hold back
I've been very bad
Make me cry
(oh oh oh)
Daddy, make me cry

JANET JACKSON

"Discipline"


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 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"


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

Daddy's Little Girl & Mommy's Little Boy


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

BARBARA TUCHMAN

Sand Against the Wind


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

JOYCE MEYER

The Secret to True Happiness


Discipline is an index to doctrine.

TERTULLIAN

attributed, Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture


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

Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World


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

A Dictionary of Thoughts


To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.

WILLIAM GLASSER

Control Theory in the Classroom


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

American Annals of the Deaf, 1914


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

NOAH BENSHEA

Great Quotes to Inspire Great Teachers


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

Great Quotes to Inspire Great Teachers


Discipline is the defining fire by which talent becomes ability.

ROY SMITH

attributed, Words of Wisdom and Quotable Quotes


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

LES CHRISTIE

When Church Kids Go Bad


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

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI

Commentaries on Living


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


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

SENECA


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

ANONYMOUS


Life without discipline is like a ship without a rudder.

RONIE MATHEW THOMAS

Primary Essays and Proverbs