Quotes on Discipline

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Author: Theodor Adorno

I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.

Author: Ralph Allen

I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.

Author: Joan Armatrading

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

Author: Irving Babbitt

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

Author: Clara Barton

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Author: Bernard Baruch

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Author: Bernard Baruch

I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

Author: Venerable Bede

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

Author: Ritchie Blackmore

This marched was planned to be non violent and non confrontational, and gladly it stayed that way. What really impressed me was the self discipline of the Black Block.

Author: John Blair

Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

Author: Bill Bruford

Discipline is remembering what you want.

Author: David Campbell

I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place.

Author: Jim Cantalupo

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Author: Miguel Cervantes

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Author: William Channing

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

Author: Charles Cooley

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

Author: John Dalton

Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.

Author: Godfried Danneels

One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.

Author: Siobhan Davies

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Author: Charles Dickens

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.

Author: R. Ermey

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Author: William Feather

You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'

Author: Harold Ford

Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.

Author: Daisy Fuentes

Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

Author: Liam Gallagher

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

Author: Mary Garden

I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.

Author: Jean Giraudoux

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

Author: Frank Herbert

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Author: Abraham Heschel

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

Author: Hal Holbrook

However, lifestyle intervention requires discipline with a tangible end result that is within reach. It requires personal resolve, a lifelong commitment.

Author: Tim Holden

Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.

Author: Larry Holmes

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

Author: John Howard

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Author: Lee Iacocca

One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

Author: Daniel Inouye

Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.

Author: Mike Johanns

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

Author: Tom Kite

I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.

Author: Jack LaLanne

For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.

Author: Brandon Lee

I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.

Author: Geddy Lee

It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.

Author: Arthur Lydiard

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

Author: Francois Mauriac

I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline.

Author: John McCain

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.

Author: Ethel Merman

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.

Author: Matthew Modine

The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.

Author: Bob Newhart

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do.

Author: Edward Olmos

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

Author: P. O'Rourke

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Author: George Patton

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

Author: Bum Phillips

They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.

Author: Kelly Preston

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

Author: Alan Rickman

Discipline is not a nasty word.

Author: Pat Riley

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

Author: Frederick Robertson

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

Author: Fred Rogers

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Author: Jim Rohn

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Author: Jim Rohn

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Author: Jim Rohn

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Author: Bertrand Russell

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

Author: May Sarton

Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.

Author: George Shearing

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

Author: Edith Sitwell

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

Author: Goldwin Smith

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

Author: John Steinbeck

I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

Author: Ted Stevens

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

Author: Barbara Tuchman

It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.

Author: Blair Underwood

For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline.

Author: Robert Vaughn

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

Author: Sanford Weill

Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.

Author: Paul Weyrich

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

Author: Steve Winwood

My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit.

Author: George Woodcock

Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

Author: James Young

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

Author: Dorothy Parker

Success doesn't come from what you do occasionally, but from what you do consistently.

Author: Marie Forleo

The dance of success is choreographed by discipline and passion.

Author: Sophia Nguyen

Don't wait for motivation to begin, discipline will carry you through any obstacle.

Author: Samantha Watson

A life without discipline is like a ship without a compass, destined to drift aimlessly amidst the chaos of the oceans.

Author: Sophia Lee

The key to unlocking success lies in the discipline of consistency

Author: Samantha Martinez

Success is the fruit of perseverance watered with discipline.

Author: Catherine Thompson

Life is the art of balance between chaos and order, swirls of creativity and strokes of discipline.

Author: Maya Patel

Do not wait for inspiration, create a habit of discipline.

Author: Samantha Smith

Success is not about being the smartest in the room, but about being the most disciplined one.

Author: Samantha Johnson

Instead of waiting for motivation to strike, create it each day through disciplined actions.

Author: Maya Johnson

Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.

Author: Rachel Johnson

Success is the reflection of discipline, determination, and dedication.

Author: Sophia Evans

Creativity is a wild mind paired with a disciplined eye.

Author: Jamie Williams

The path to mastery is paved with dedication, perseverance, and a love for the craft.

Author: Samantha Adams

Success is built on disciplined actions taken consistently over time, not on sudden bursts of enthusiasm.

Author: Samantha Walker

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Author: Bruce Lee

Success is born out of discipline and nurtured by determination.

Author: Sarah Chang

Don't wait for motivation to start, create discipline to finish.

Author: Sophia Martinez

Chaos breeds creativity, but discipline hones it into brilliance.

Author: Sophia Nguyen

Success calls for discipline, determination, and a sprinkle of passion.

Author: Elena Nguyen

Success is not always about glory, it's about determination and discipline.

Author: Michelle Obama

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Author: Jim Rohn

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment.

Author: Lou Holtz

Without hard work and discipline, success is just a dream.

Author: Denzel Washington

The only limit to power is the extent of one's discipline.

Author: Bruce Lee

Do not wait for motivation, create discipline.

Author: Jillian Michaels

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

Author: Lou Holtz

Success has no elevator, you have to take the stairs.

Author: Jane Smith

Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, resent discipline yet, be successful.

Author: Olivia Goldsmith

Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

It's not about having time, it's about making time.

Author: Lily Evans