Discipline Quotes

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He’s good, nobody can touch Him.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

The article of discipline is the most difficult in American education. Premature ideas of independence, too little repressed by parents, beget a spirit of insubordination, which is the great obstacle to science with us and a principle cause of its decay since the revolution. I look to it with dismay in our institution, as a […]

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

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.

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.