Discipline Quotes

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.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency.

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