quotations about discipline
If love is the heart of the person, discipline is the skeleton, giving a person form and protection.
HENRY CLOUD & JOHN TOWNSEND
How People Grow
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
general orders, Jul. 6, 1777
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. Discipline is guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.
BETTE DAVIS
attributed, Great Quotes to Inspire Teachers
There's no merit in discipline under ideal circumstances. I'll have it in the face of death, or it's useless.
ISAAC ASIMOV
Foundation
If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient, you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.
CRITIAS OF ATHENS
attributed, 1,001 Pearls of Wisdom
Discipline is a moral, mental, and physical state in which all ranks respond to the will of the leader.
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS
Fire Officer
The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.
MARCEL PROUST
attributed, The Successful Toastmaster
A sense of discipline is like the earth itself. It is the ground from which all good qualities can grow forth.
TSOKNYI RINPOCHE
Fearless Simplicity
Self-discipline is the free man's yoke.
JOHN W. GARDNER
attributed, Quotes Worth Repeating
A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
Commentaries on living
Discipline is a word with which not a little conjuring is done nowadays by men who fail to understand fully what it means. It is often spoken or written of as if it were itself an end, or at least the means to an end; as if it were something quite unconnected with the acquisition of valuable knowledge; as if the acquisition of certain kinds of knowledge always gave discipline, while that of other kinds did not; and so on. Now, properly speaking, culture and training are the only ends, and the acquisition of knowledge the only means to them, while the position of discipline is rather that of a method. The essence of discipline is simply preparation; that is a disciplinary study which duly leads the way to something that is to come after. He who sets up discipline and knowledge as opposed to and excluding each other wholly misapprehends their mutual relations, and casts the advantage into the hands of his adversaries. In reality, the connection and interdependence of the two are complete. No discipline without valuable knowledge acquired; all valuable knowledge available for discipline; the discipline in proportion to the amount and value of the knowledge acquired: these are fundamental truths in the theory of education.
W. D. WHITNEY
The North American Review, Oct. 1871
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.
ALEXIS CARREL
attributed, Words of Wisdom and Quotable Quotes