Top 100 Discipline Is Quotes

#1. The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

Madeleine L'Engle

#2. Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#3. Discipline is consistency of action.

James C. Collins

#4. Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience. It is the deliberate cultivation of inner order.

Charles R. Swindoll

#5. Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

Pat Summitt

#7. Discipline is the wholehearted yes to the call of God. When I know myself called, summoned, addressed, taken possession of, known, acted upon, I have heard the Master. I put myself gladly, fully, and forever at His disposal, and to whatever He says my answer is yes.

Elisabeth Elliot

#8. The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish ... between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal.

Marvin J. Ashton

#9. There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective but she is not over-protective - that is really important. She is tolerant, but she can impose discipline. She is affectionate. She plays. And the most important of all: she is supportive.

Jane Goodall

#10. I still thought that to get something you had to go straight for your goal whereas it is only distractions, uncertainty, distance that bring us closer to our targets, and then it is the targets which strike us.

Fleur Jaeggy

#11. Eisenhower on Patton: Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.

Jean Edward Smith

#12. Hunger is good discipline.

Ernest Hemingway,

#13. If the discipline of requirements specification has taught us anything, it is that well-specified requirements are as formal as code and can act as executable tests of that code!

Robert C. Martin

#14. The more a man has to indulge in, the less disposed he is to endure the discipline of toil

Richard Weaver

#15. Richness is the output of lengthy years full of discipline, hard work, persistence and Self-Belief.

Rajasaraswathii

#16. Love is spiritual. It's about self-sacrifice and commitment. And discipline. You cannot have true love without discipline and respect. When you lose the respect of your spouse, you've lost everything.

Candace Bushnell

#17. I don't get a rush from anything. I did music as hard as I could. Acting for me at least, is a far more restrained performance than music. It requires a lot of skill and discipline. I'm not any good at it but I enjoy trying to be good at it.

Henry Rollins

#18. Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#19. 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

#20. To do is hard, but to teach is still harder. Do not teach only to teach. Teach to improve the pupil. To be a teacher requires tremendous, vigorous discipline on oneself. We are teachers because somebody demands it from us. But the teacher should first rub his own self, and teach afterwards

B.K.S. Iyengar

#21. Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.

Pearl Cleage

#22. One who controls his unruly passions is able to apply with discipline his polite ones.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#23. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Edmund Burke

#24. 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

#25. Normally what I do is I'll record something that I really like which will be part of a song or an idea. I kind of just record things and then I'm done with them. It takes discipline to actually carve out a song.

Michael Cera

#26. The Hierarchic Qualm: The sword kills. But the arm moves the sword. Is the arm to blame for murder? No. The mind moves the arm. Is the mind to blame? No. The mind has sworn an oath to duty, and that duty moves the mind, as written by the Throne. So it is that a servant of the Throne is blameless.

Seth Dickinson

#27. I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

Melissa Etheridge

#28. Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#29. Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.

Ted Malloch

#30. My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they've lost their usefulness.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#31. Therefore, any social or political system in which people get things they don't earn, or are rewarded for lack of self-discipline or for immoral behavior, is simply an immoral system.

George Lakoff

#32. I learn more from creative people in other disciplines than I do even from other architects because I think they have a way of looking at the world that is really important,

Tom Kundig

#33. The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline ... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Vivienne Westwood

#34. The problem with patience and discipline is that it requires both of them to develop each of them.

Thomas M. Sterner

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

Brandon Lee

#36. I grew up not having a father. Golf is the father I never had. It taught me honesty and respect and discipline and it taught me to control my temperament.

George Lopez

#37. Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.

Pat Conroy

#38. The attempt to isolate economics from other disciplines-notably politics, history, philosophy, finance, constitutional theory and sociology-has fatally disabled its power to explain what is happening in the world.

Will Hutton

#39. 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.

Godfried Danneels

#40. Discipline is doing what you really don't want to do so you can do what you really want to do.

Jeff Fisher

#41. Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.

Brian Greene

#42. natural science is likely to be soon exhausted. Passing by many particulars of the discipline

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#43. In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#44. To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.

Dejan Stojanovic

#45. Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

Gary Ryan Blair

#46. There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

Robert Breault

#47. American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#48. Since men's nature is prone to hypocrisy, it is easy for Satan to persuade them that the true worship of God consists in ceremonies and outward discipline; men

John Calvin

#49. There is no effectiveness without discipline, and there is no discipline without character.

Stephen R. Covey

#50. For the kind of places I've written for and the kind of writing that I've done, the general way to think about your audience is to think about somebody who's like yourself, but in a completely different discipline.

Louis Menand

#51. Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

Gautama Buddha

#52. Discipline is helping a child solve a Problem. Punishment is making a child suffer for having a problem. To raise problem solvers, focus on solution not retribution.

L.R. Knost

#53. Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Stephen Covey

#54. I've learned about leadership is that leaders are those individuals who do the things that failures aren't willing to do - even though they might not like doing them either. They have the discipline to do what they know to be important - and right - versus what's easy and fun.

Robin S. Sharma

#55. Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.

Hannes Alfven

#56. Discipline is like a muscle. The more you build it, the more you can rely on it.

Steve Pavlina

#57. By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.

Ron Suskind

#58. If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.

Stephen Covey

#59. 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

#60. All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realisation of this third stage, adoption, that requires our passion and our discipline, our hearts and our heads. The fate of animals is in our hands.

Tom Regan

#61. And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.

Jim Cantalupo

#62. Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capacities and discipline. Art education should help build those capacities and that discipline without messing over the child.

Peter Schjeldahl

#63. Language is too complex for a computer to understand. It's not going to be able to make sense of what people are saying en masse. We need a new type of discipline that puts together computer scientists and social scientists, who can add context to the situation.

Noreena Hertz

#64. When a woman is fit and healthy, everything else falls into place. We are conditioned to put others first, that 'burnt chop syndrome' we observed in our mothers. It takes discipline to pay attention to our diets, to exercise, to leave time for refreshment of mind, body and spirit.

Quentin Bryce

#65. Am I a control freak? No. Do I believe in organization? You bet. In discipline? In being on time and making sure everything at the hotel is ready and right? Definitely. I don't control players. I try to control the environment around the players so they can flourish.

Pat Riley

#66. Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. This

M. Scott Peck

#67. To make it into a discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.

Alain De Botton

#68. 5 Learning to dance en pointe is tough. It takes years and years to build up the strength, years of discipline and exercise. Even

Cathy Cassidy

#69. I have been involved with science and math education my whole life. My hope is to continue to promote the love of these beautiful disciplines to the next generation.

Tohoru Masamune

#70. Well, let's distinguish religion from spirituality. I am Catholic, so religion for me is a way of having discipline and collective worship with persons who share the same mystery.

Paulo Coelho

#71. Take the pains required to become what you want to become, or you might end up becoming something you'd rather not be. That is also a daily discipline and worth considering.

Donald Trump

#72. Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.

Michael Crichton

#73. 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

#74. Talent is the discipline, commitment, and willpower to practice/train/study often, long, and hard. Discover your passion and pay the price.

Bradford Winters

#75. But it is part of the discipline of humility that we must not spare our hand where it can perform a service and that we do not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it it to be arranged by God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#76. Discipline is needed in our family lives.

Sunday Adelaja

#77. Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is fit to discipline others or can impose discipline on others.

William Feather

#78. Striving to be good is the ultimate struggle of every man. Being bad is easy, but being good requires sincere commitment, discipline and strength. We have to work hard every day just to remain good.

Suzy Kassem

#79. Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain.

Charles M. Schwab

#80. These are only hints an guesses ... the rest is prayer, observance, discipline, thought, and action.

T. S. Eliot

#81. Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge enters the mind.

Helen Keller

#82. Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skillful than yesterday, more skillful than today. This is never-ending.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#83. We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in art and athletics, how can we expect to be advanced Christians and stay in kindergarten?

Vance Havner

#84. Philosophy is the discipline that involves creating concepts .

Gilles Deleuze

#85. Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#86. Femininity is imposed for the most part through an unremitting discipline that concerns every part of the body and is continuously recalled through the constraints of clothing or hairstyle.

Pierre Bourdieu

#87. The main thing during a crisis is discipline, to begin investing in time again after the crisis subsides.

Suleyman Kerimov

#88. You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.

Michael Chabon

#89. It is important to receive God's arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God's arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.

Watchman Nee

#90. I've never been in a business where safety performance was excellent and the business performance was not, so they go hand in hand, and for me, safety performance is an indication of discipline, of focus and of how joined up an organisation is.

Cynthia Carroll

#91. Overtraining is the biggest problem incurred by runners who lack the experience or discipline to cope with their own enthusiasm.

Marty Liquori

#92. Discipline is simply self-control. If a warrior can't control her feelings, she can't control her actions, and if she can't control her actions, she may blunder into a serious mistake.

Catherine M. Wilson

#93. Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

Pat Summitt

#94. That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.

Hosea Ballou

#95. Discipline is positive. Discipline is training. Teaching and discipline are inseparable.

Jean Fleming

#96. The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.

Napoleon Hill

#97. Fasting is not just a physical discipline; it can be a spiritual feast.

Jentezen Franklin

#98. The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#99. Our lives is almost always a result of those things we habitually think and those things we habitually do. Life is the fruit of discipline, or lack of it. We are our habits. For example, you cannot separate Tiger

Matthew Kelly

#100. I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

Maya Angelou

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