Best Discipline Quotes

#1. For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.

Bertrand Russell

#2. Passion produces the best discipline.

Bill Johnson

#3. The best discipline, maybe the only discipline that really works, is self- discipline.

Walter Kiechel

#4. I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.

Jonathan Kozol

#5. Do your best, and your best will be growing better.

Emma Willard

#6. What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

Manolo Blahnik

#7. Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. Roy Bennett

Roy Bennett

#8. 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.

Ted Stevens

#9. The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

Ernest Hemingway,

#10. I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart.

Charlie Munger

#11. It's best to start the discipline of generosity when the amounts are small. It's easy to give ten cents out of a dollar; it's a little harder to give a hundred thousand out of a million.

Jim Rohn

#12. Discipline your mind to think positively; to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.

Roy Bennett

#13. With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.

Georges St-Pierre

#14. My son Hannibal will be a great general, because of all my soldiers he best knows how to obey.

Hamilcar Barca

#15. Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can ... On third down and short yardage, the Raiders don't jump offside. That's discipline - not a coat and tie, not a clean shave.

John Madden

#16. All of your precious resources - time, energy, talent, passion, and money - should only go to the areas of your life or your business that are best, are fixable, and are indespensable. Otherwise, average sets in and [your life] does not become what it was designed to be.

Henry Cloud

#17. Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.

Criss Jami

#18. Discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it. Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can.

John Madden

#19. I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.

Naomi Benaron

#20. Healthy competition places discipline on the market and should focus providers on providing the best service at a lower cost.

Julius Genachowski

#21. Being best at things has nothing to do with talent; it is all about self - discipline and commitment.

M.F. Moonzajer

#22. At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.

Norman Lamm

#23. Walking in mist tests not only individual self-discipline, but the best sort of interplay between persons.

Nan Shepherd

#24. The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you're beating the market but by whether you've put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go.

Benjamin Graham

#25. My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.

John Ruskin

#26. Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done. Benjamin Franklin

Barbara W. Tuchman

#27. A practice of giving [it] your best, means you don't just have to hope for it.

T.F. Hodge

#28. John F. Kennedy responded, as he often did when at his best, skillfully mixing dollops of wit with, self-deprecation, and the principle of not-really-going-near-the-question.

David Pietrusza

#29. One of the many ways of contesting level-zero, and one of the best, is to take photographs, an activity in which one should start becoming adept very early in life, teach it to children since it requires discipline, aesthetic education, a good eye and steady fingers.

Julio Cortazar

#30. Anger, hate, blind temper, that crazy switch to destroy, all of it purified into discipline and control, the best side of boxing, Billy says.

Adam Berlin

#31. Discipline is doing what you are supposed to do in the best possible manner at the time you are supposed to do it.

Mike Krzyzewski

#32. Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it's done.

Ben Harper

#33. The best restraint is old-fashioned market discipline, in which financial traders know that they, personally, will lose a ton of money if they take risky bets that don't pan out.

David Ignatius

#34. If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.

Michael Jordan

#35. The best way to reach your Goal is to say "NO" more than you say "YES

Todd Stocker

#36. Despite several millennia of building best business practices, despite all the analysis and planning, and forced discipline and structure, what makes us human will never be cleaved from how work gets done.

Bill Jensen

#37. In short, we do not abandon any discipline for despair of ever being the best in it.

Epictetus

#38. The best form of respect is self respect. Give it to yourself and others will see that you won't settle for anything less.

Auliq Ice

#39. The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong.

Jim Rohn

#40. Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration.

Wes Fesler

#41. The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and excellence of Christ. They overcome the world by seeing something more attractive than the world: Christ

Thomas Chalmers

#42. Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

Bobby Knight

#43. If you want to learn, focus 95 percent of learning from the best in your industry, craft, or discipline. If you want to teach, focus 95 percent on the people who are not the best to learn how to help the 95 percent who wants to learn.

Ben Tolosa

#44. The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

#45. The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

George Bernard Shaw

#46. The best way to pursue any discipline is the martial art way.

Joe Rogan

#47. If design is a problem-solving discipline, then great design must start with a thorough understanding of the problem to be solved - which is best found in a great design brief.

Peter L. Phillips

#48. Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically.

Matt Smith

#49. If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.

Matthew Arnold

#50. Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless.

Thomas S. Monson

#51. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?

Henry David Thoreau

#52. Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.

Kale Burton

#53. I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.

Suzanne Farrell

#54. Great companies first build a culture of discipline . . . and create a business model that fits squarely in the intersection of three circles: what they can be best in the world at, a deep understanding of their economic engine, and the core values they hold with deep passion.

Isadore Sharp

#55. We have an obligation to ourselves to foster the environment that allows for our self-actualization. Rather than my gifts serving me, I must serve them. I want to be a steward of the best aspects of my character and assist them in their fulfillment through proper discipline and habits.

Chris Matakas

#56. Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.

Pete Townshend

#57. Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing! One day, and I might not be around; you're going to meet a tough guy who takes your best shot. He'll keep coming because he's tough. Don't get discouraged. That's when the discipline comes in.

Mike Tyson

#58. The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature.

Samuel Smiles

#59. The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

Oswald Chambers

#60. The best thing Clinton could do - I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure - is to shut up. He has no discipline.

Barry Goldwater

#61. It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. Art is confidence. Technique makes it possible to achieve artistic greatness, but doesn't guarantee it. The great piano artists are not the ones who are best playing Clementi exercises.

Dirk Benedict

#62. There's no better training than working on a soap opera because of the amount of hours, the amount of pages you do a day are unbelievable. It's the best training I had in terms of discipline.

Daniela Ruah

#63. Did we do our best to meet our priorities for that day, based on the given circumstances and unexpected life events? Today agility and fluidity are truly the key elements required - along with patience, compassion, forgiveness, and gentle discipline. Maryrose Solis, founder, March 4ward

Anonymous

#64. Consistent, father-led family worship is one of the best, steadiest, and most easily measurable ways to bring up children in the Lord's discipline and instruction.

Donald S. Whitney

#65. When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it.

Zig Ziglar

#66. Downturns are the best time to start businesses, because you develop discipline that's very lean and mean in terms of how to spend money. And those habits serve you very well in good times.

Kevin O'Leary

#67. It is important to understand the purpose of criticism. Criticism is not meant to punish, but rather to correct something that is preventing better results. The only goal of criticism or discipline is improvement. You must keep that in mind and try to the best of your ability to use tact.

John Wooden

#68. A man who writes a story is forced to put into it the best of his knowledge and the best of his feeling. The discipline of the written word punishes stupidity and dishonesty. A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you.

John Steinbeck

#69. The best-remembered teachers are the tough ones, who discipline our intellects for the longest journeys.

Annis Pratt

#70. The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

Samuel Smiles

#71. The best education is self-discipline with good principles through human university.

Uzoma Nnadi

#72. if a person cannot master the power of self-discipline, it is best not to try to get rich.

Robert T. Kiyosaki