Top 89 Discipline Freedom Quotes
#1. If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.
Renzo Piano
#3. Daily discipline is the door to full freedom, and the discipline to count to one thousand gave way to the freedom of wonder and I can't imagine not staying awake to God in the moment, the joy in the now.
Ann Voskamp
#4. The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.
Henry David Thoreau
#5. Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#6. If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses ... only through discipline may a man learn to be free.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#7. Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz ... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want.
Dave Brubeck
#8. I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#9. Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for
liberation.
Martha Graham
#10. When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes ... By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the meaning of discipline and its reward: freedom and power.
May Sarton
#11. All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.
Andre Maurois
#12. Business is correct to defend its right to act in order to produce a vigorous and engaging prosperity. But it is wrong if it forgets that this freedom can only be experienced within the discipline of social responsibility.
Paul Hawken
#13. The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
Bernard Baruch
#14. Freedom without structure is its own slavery.
David Brooks
#15. The individual has to awaken his intelligence, not through any form of discipline, resistance, compulsion, coercion, but through freedom.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#16. Freedom or prison
what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#17. Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.
Edith Hamilton
#18. We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.
Cesar Chavez
#19. Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
Jeanette Winterson
#20. The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.
Leo Tolstoy
#21. Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Frank Herbert
#22. The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#23. The principle of democracy is freedom, the principle of war is discipline; each requires the absence of the other.
Will Durant
#24. An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations ...
Wayne Thiebaud
#25. Oddly, with discipline, structure, and order, you will find freedom, anything is possible. Without it, locating your saddle may take all morning.
Ethan Hawke
#26. In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#27. Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.
Dave Brubeck
#28. It is a paradoxical statement, but it takes incredible personal discipline to play with great freedom.
Dick Bennett
#29. It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.
Steve Winwood
#30. Freely chosen, discipline is absolute freedom.
Ron Serino
#31. Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you'd sink into chaos.
Paulo Coelho
#32. It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.
Colin Wilson
#33. Give me the discipline to get rid of the stuff that's not important, the freedom to savor the stuff that gives me joy, and the patience not to worry about the stuff that's messy but not hurting anybody.
Vinita Hampton Wright
#34. Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
Yahya Jammeh
#35. People don't realise that to be free means to be firmly attached to a system, that discipline is the road to a higher freedom.
Chandrasekharendra Saraswati
#36. Thanksgiving speaks in clear, crisp tones of forgotten terms, like integrity - bravery - respect - freedom - discipline - sacrifice - godliness.
Charles R. Swindoll
#38. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.
Wayne Thiebaud
#39. The virtues prized in free countries are honesty, self-discipline, a sense of responsibility to one's family, a sense of loyalty to one's employer and staff, and a pride in the quality of one's work. And these virtues only flourish in a climate of freedom.
Margaret Thatcher
#40. You live in a time of great challenges and opportunities. As spirit sons of heavenly parents, you are free to make the right choices. This requires hard work, self-discipline, and an optimistic outlook, which will bring joy and freedom into your life now and in the future.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#41. Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is a slave to his own weaknesses.
Alan Valentine
#42. Discipline must be without control, without suppression, without any form of fear...It is not discipline first and then freedom; freedom is at the very beginning, not at the end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#43. Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline?
Yehudi Menuhin
#44. The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.
Matthew Kelly
#45. The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable.
Mark Helprin
#48. Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, it creates moral dilemmas for you; it requires self-discipline; it imposes great responsibilities; but such is the nature of Man and in such consists his glory and salvation.
Margaret Thatcher
#49. I love the freedom you feel on horseback, and enjoy the discipline of competition.
Jessica Springsteen
#50. And her [Eleanor Roosevelt] Grandmother Hall provided her really with a quite wonderful education, and a freedom that, within the framework of Tivoli (which is a framework of discipline and order) is also a very encouraging and loving one.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
#51. There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.
Ricardo Montalban
#52. True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
Mortimer J. Adler
#53. My father taught me that only through self-discipline can you achieve freedom. Pour water in a cup and you can drink; without the cup, the water would splash all over. The cup is discipline.
Ricardo Montalban
#55. It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.
Alan Keyes
#56. It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality.
Stephanie Mills
#57. There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect. Both are supplementary to each other and must be regarded as intimately connected. Discipline and freedom are thus to be seen as elements of equal weight, each partaking of the other.
Armin Hofmann
#59. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Edmund Burke
#60. The trouble is ... that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#61. Today was the end of freedom. High school had fallen behind; college loomed ahead. Tomorrow he traded freedom and Arizona for Colorado and discipline.
Tony Taylor
#62. A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#63. I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
Alan Rickman
#64. Discipline is freedom. It is you getting yourself to do what you really want to do.
Patricia Moreno
#65. You don't know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don't know that the rod, discipline, violence, the state and government can only be sustained because of you and because of your lack of socially creative powers that develop order within liberty!
Gustav Landauer
#66. Much has been written about what makes families work. The consensus is that families that support the emotional well-being and growth of their members combine two almost opposite traits. They combine discipline with spontaneity, rules with freedom, high expectations with unstinting love.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#67. 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
#68. Don't ever think that you're a single in total freedom,but think of combating the forces of lust.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#69. You do not become a master musician by playing just as you please, by imagining that learning the scales is sheer legalism and bondage! No, true freedom in any area of life is the consequence of regular discipline. It is no less true of the life of prayer.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#70. 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
#71. Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.
Cullen Hightower
#73. I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.
Criss Jami
#74. Freedom of choice makes it possible to plan our lives and to make the most of ourselves. Yet if this freedom lacks noble goals or personal discipline, it degenerates into an inability to give oneself generously to others.
Pope Francis
#75. 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.
Charles Horton Cooley
#76. Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
Erica Jong
#77. Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.
Maria Montessori
#78. If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the other kinds of struggles, as well as the military, then the peril to freedom will continue to rise.
John F. Kennedy
#79. The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
David Foster Wallace
#80. In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#81. Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it.
Cullen Hightower
#82. Discipline leads us to freedom and freedom leads us to fulfillment.
Farshad Asl
#83. What I've always loved about gymnastics and one of the many reasons I love watching it now is the combination of skill and freedom it has - the discipline and expression - letting you dance.
Gwendoline Christie
#85. Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.
Richard J. Foster
#86. In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In so doing, philosophy has denied its own constitutive concept: the intellectual freedom that does not obey the dictates of specialized knowledge.
Theodor Adorno
#87. Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.
Elisabeth Elliot
#89. I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.
Anne Lamott
