Quotes
Quotes about Discipline
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.
Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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.
Error is discipline through which we advance.
Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.
The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith--and faith will triumph.
The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.
The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status. I once knew a boss who invariably picked up the phone to give orders before the end of the first paragraph in a status report. That response is guaranteed to squelch full disclosure.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.
History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women.
The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. -James L. Fisher.
An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes. This unification of speaker and listener is actually and extension and enlargement of ourselves, and new knowledge is always gained from this. Moreover, since true listening involves bracketing, a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the other. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will fell less and less vulnerable and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the duet dance of love is begun again. -M. Scott Peck.
In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much.".
You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission; he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality.
