Quotes On Discipline By Swami Vivekananda

#1. A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. People respond to kindness. They trust a smile more than a promise that you will leave them choking on their own blood.

Kiersten White

#3. My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.

Louis Prima

#4. An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

Madeleine L'Engle

#5. Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life ...

Penelope Gilliatt

#6. Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.

Swami Vivekananda

#7. My favorite moment is when someone says, 'I like 'Unleashed.' 'Now You See Me' is so much fun.' That's what I want to do: smart, fun and big movies. I cannot lie, I love working with those big paint brushes. I have a blast doing these movies.

Louis Leterrier

#8. The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.

Norman Mailer

#9. My passion is for playing music and although everyone needs a break sometimes just to keep things interesting and fresh, there's no way I would ever give that up.

Jonny Lang

#10. The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.

Swami Vivekananda

#11. God, fate, the universe, luck - we had been thrown together in this thing we call life for reasons we might never be able to fathom.

Nick Wilgus

#12. No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in other words, as the Master used to say that the sapling must be hedged round, and so on.

Swami Vivekananda

#13. The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

Thornton Wilder

#14. All these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it is pure, all truths flash upon it in a minute; all truth in the universe will manifest in your heart, if you are sufficiently pure.

Swami Vivekananda

#15. Everyone told me to pass on 'Speed' because it was a 'bus movie.'

Sandra Bullock

#16. Is this the part where you tell me he'll come around?" "Hell, no." At least Phil Butler was an honest man. Five

S.E. Jakes

#17. The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can do one or two things well with very little effort, having practiced them every day through generations.

Swami Vivekananda

#18. The conscious mind has the power of choice; the sub-conscious does what it's told to do.

Dr.Joseph Murphy

#19. Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.

Swami Vivekananda

#20. Fear is an abortion of good thoughts

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

#21. It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour ...

Swami Vivekananda

#22. Istanbul owes its extraordinary situation to Golden Horn, Marmara Sea and The Bosphorus.

Edmondo De Amicis

#23. The whole point is to discipline the mind.

Swami Vivekananda

#24. The secret to my success, is that I'm just too dumb to know that I can't do it.

Steve W. Allen