Top 100 Discipline Is Quotes
#1. Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.
Gary Ryan Blair
#2. Discipline is the long and arduous process of convincing the mind to abide by one's conscience.
Wes Fesler
#3. We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
Zig Ziglar
#5. Discipline is as much facing the enemy within as the enemy before you;
Steven Erikson
#6. A man without discipline is no better than a dog. A soldier without discipline is no better than a corpse. Worse, in fact. A corpse is no threat to his comrades.
Joe Abercrombie
#7. So you can't demand the broken to live as if they were whole. Discipline is not the issue; apply discipline and you'll make it worse. What is needed is healing.
John Eldredge
#8. 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
#9. 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
#11. The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment
Justin Langer
#12. Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#13. Discipline is to present us before grace, it does not produce grace to make sense.
Richard J. Foster
#14. Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all
George Washington
#15. Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.
Cullen Hightower
#16. Discipline is for professionals.
Motivation is for amateurs.
J.R. Rim
#17. 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
#18. Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.
Mitch Gaylord
#19. No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening - it's painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way" (Hebrews 12:11 NLT).
Rick Warren
#20. Spiritual discipline is the cultivation of Love. Be full of Love. taste the exhilaration that Love can confer. Let everyone see your exuberant with light and joy.
Sathya Sai Baba
#21. Emotion without discipline is as dangerous as a high-powered car without brakes.
Helen Kieran Reilly
#22. Training, a lot of the time, is just uncomfortable. But discipline is all about doing the thing that's uncomfortable.
Frank Shamrock
#23. Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling you that you're wrong. But self-discipline is different. It's the skill of seeing through the hollow shouting of your own impulses and piercing their secret.
Henepola Gunaratana
#24. Discipline is not a light switch. Discipline is a way of life.
John Harbaugh
#25. Because discipline is misunderstood or not as valued as it has been, the United States - and some might argue the world - is experiencing a cultural leadership crisis.
John Manning
#26. A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.
James C. Collins
#27. 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
#28. Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.
Dalai Lama
#29. The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.
Gautama Buddha
#30. For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.
Philip Roth
#32. For discipline is the channel in which our acts run strong and deep; where there is no direction, the deeds of men run shallow and wander and are wasted.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#33. A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
Alan Turing
#34. Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation
Robert Frost
#35. 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
#36. True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.
Charles Eisenstein
#37. Talent without discipline is only an empty promise - the glitter of an unworked crystal. It is nothing of itself.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#39. Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y.
Massimo Vignelli
#40. I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
Bjork
#41. Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.
Darrin Patrick
#42. Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses
Brian Tracy
#43. Emotion combined with an artist's discipline is the rarest thing in the world.
Ursula Nordstrom
#44. To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.
William Glasser
#45. I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.
Robert Griffin III
#46. Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.
Maxwell Maltz
#47. Discipline is one of the basic and primary requirements for success in life.
Sunday Adelaja
#48. Just ticking boxes is not the ultimate goal here. Embracing a culture of teamwork and discipline is. And if we recognised the opportunity, the two-minute WHO checklist is just a start.
Atul Gawande
#49. Discipline is the result of an action, while refinement is a preparation of your calling.
Robin Bertram
#50. To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less than His children. For every father must discipline His children, and paternal discipline is itself a mercy, a fatherly expression of love.
Scott Hahn
#51. Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'
Patti Smith
#52. I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.
Barbara Kingsolver
#53. Self-discipline is the beginning of wisdom, not its end. When we have discovered the purpose for which self-discipline exists, we will, if we are sane, hardly recall anything about self-discipline because it has enabled us to become free to see and do so much else.
James V. Schall
#54. The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.
John Rosemond
#55. 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
#56. Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
Bill Vaughan
#57. And success in any endeavor where self-discipline is involved boils down to this question: can you make yourself do something you don't particularly want to do in order to get a result you would like to have?
Andy Andrews
#58. Discipline is the fuel of achievement.
Soa Palelei
#59. It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
Barbara Kingsolver
#60. The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.
Robin S. Sharma
#62. There is one prevailing key to success. Do what you resolve to do. Then you'll be a success. If you can discipline yourself to follow through on your promises to yourself, your self-esteem goes up. Persistence is self-discipline in action. Self-discipline is the foundation of self-confidence .
Brian Tracy
#63. Discipline is a necessary tool to help you get what you want in life. It forces you to stay on center and to move away from the things that are not necessary.
Diana Ross
#64. Self-discipline is always going to be an unreachable target until you tackle the question of 'why'. Once you nail down your motivation and keep it clear in the front of your mind, you can move to making all of your dreams turn into realities.
John Collins
#65. A spiritual life without discipline is impossible. Discipline is the other side of discipleship. The practice of a spiritual discipline makes us more sensitive to the small, gentle voice of God.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#66. Discipline is not punishment. Discipline is changing someone's behavior.
Nick Saban
#67. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard.
D. Todd Christofferson
#68. Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#69. Freely chosen, discipline is absolute freedom.
Ron Serino
#71. Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
#72. Discipline is the greatest thing in the world. Where there is no discipline, there is no character. And without character, there is no progress ...
James C. Collins
#73. Discipline is all about the imposition of control-the belief that, by following a precise regime and avoiding distractions, you can somehow keep the disorder of life at bay.
Douglas Kennedy
#74. Discipline is the great equalizer. If a young woman is beautiful but has no discipline, she will lose her looks as she grows older. If a plain woman is disciplined she will undoubtedly become more beautiful with time.
Sophia Loren
#75. Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.
Mike Tyson
#76. Discipline is critical to proper preparation.
Ken Marlin
#77. Discipline is money in the bank. A real friend, true strength.
Henry Rollins
#78. But the true discipline is to remain committed, throughout the whole of one's life, to waking up from the dream of the self.
Sam Harris
#79. Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative.
James K.A. Smith
#80. In practice the democratic 'revolutionary' type of discipline is more reliable than might be expected.
George Orwell
#81. Discipline is a given; the choice is whether it is applied internally or externally.
Orrin Woodward
#82. Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#83. Discipline is the habit of taking consistent action until one can perform with unconscious competence. Discipline weighs ounces but regret weighs tons.
Jhoon Goo Rhee
#84. Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.
Gordon Neufeld
#85. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment
Jim Rohn
#86. Discipline is essential to life, whether you are administering or inflicting the spanking.
Martin Short
#87. Discipline is doing what you don't want to do so you can do what you want to do.
Jeff Fisher
#88. Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance ... everything is a physical embodiment. But the discipline is the same approach. You have to take both things seriously; nothing well-crafted is by mistake.
Amanda Schull
#89. Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#90. 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
#91. Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.
Frank Herbert
#92. The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too ...
Merce Cunningham
#93. 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
#94. Discipline is the highest form of love. If you really love someone, you have to give them the level of discipline they need.
Tom Izzo
#95. Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. I understand the need for conformity. Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense. Discipline is the key to conformity, and it is important that we learn not to question authority at an early age.
David Thorne
#97. Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules.
Alice Miller
#98. If leadership is the spinal cord of success then discipline is its lumbar vertebrae.
Noel DeJesus
#99. Self-discipline is about disciplined thoughts.
Pearl Zhu
#100. True self-discipline is not when you have someone ordering you to do push-ups, it's when you decide on your own to do them.
Stephen Guise
