Self Disciplined Person Quotes

#1. Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.

Thomas Szasz

#2. A self-disciplined person defines success by effectiveness.

Michael Andrews

#3. So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company.

Eriq La Salle

#4. I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.

Steve Earle

#5. The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose 'gift' is a reaching out toward his most profound personal potential.

Joseph C Zinker

#6. The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

Dean Smith

#7. What? Quinn's one of them? I just thought he was an a*shole!

Simon Holt

#8. If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you start it, you finish it. Yes sir, no ma'am. And you've got to have that kind of structure in your life. It kind of helped me be that disciplined person that I am, whether it's with workouts, film or just the game of football.

Robert Griffin III

#9. Mozart's music was so pure that it seemed to have been ever-present in the universe, waiting to be discovered by the master.

Albert Einstein

#10. A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline.

John Dewey

#11. A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

Vince Lombardi

#12. I was wrong. Those days are over and they ought to be over.

George C. Wallace

#13. Part of the myth is that these model citizens have been given nothing by the government and have made it on their own. The American Dream is that any honest, self-disciplined, hard-working person can do the same.

George Lakoff

#14. You cannot change what you refuse to confront.

John Spence

#15. None escape their shadows

Zed

#16. I'm a very, very disciplined person.

Marina And The Diamonds

#17. Bomb Disposal Is a face off with your own mortality. Don't let the fear get to you. When you give in to the fear, the Darkness Comes.

Peter Stillman

#18. Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.

Erika Slezak

#19. Together we will act to bring about national reconciliation, secure Malaysia's economic future, and build a stronger, more harmonious society.

Najib Razak

#20. But we should open our eyes to the many ways in which hypervigilance keeps them penned in from the more liberated life they deserve to live and that in turn would prepare them for adulthood.

Julie Lythcott-Haims

#21. It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business.

Brother Lawrence

#22. I've waited my whole life to sleep with you, Ellie Watt. I can't just pick you up from Safeway.

Karina Halle

#23. I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you have to survive. It could be done so discreetly that the object of such care would not suspect, any more than she would suspect the sentence of death itself.

Alice Munro

#24. What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

Martin Luther King Jr.

#25. Saddest of all God's creatures in the world is the religious person who has disciplined himself to outward obedience but who has no inward love to God.

Walter Chantry

#26. I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

George Herman

#27. I'm kind of a disciplined person but I don't take anything too seriously. And I think a lot of that had to do with the raising my parents gave me and my sister - Veronica Cartwright, who's an actress in her own right.

Angela Cartwright

#28. You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.

Lynn Davies

#29. I'm the ghetto Martha Stewart, the black Rachel Ray.

Coolio

#30. I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying.

Sarah Monette

#31. With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?

Joseph Pilates

#32. A happy heart can walk in triumphant indifference through a sea of external trouble; while internal anguish cannot find happiness in the most favorable surroundings.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#33. In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#34. I am a highly disciplined person. I get up at seven every morning and, still in my pajamas, sit down at my desk where my checkered ring binders and my fountain pen are ready for use. I try to write two pages every day.

Orhan Pamuk

#35. I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

Dean Smith

#36. I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

Hanif Kureishi

#37. Being disciplined with an ego that makes you to feel like you can never be disciplined by any other person is "indiscipline".

Israelmore Ayivor

#38. A person who refuses to manage himself and discipline his flesh will be disciplined and taught by life itself.

Sunday Adelaja

#39. Contemplative traditions on the whole have historically emphasized subjective, first-person investigation of the nature and functions of consciousness, by training the mind to focus in a disciplined way on its own internal states.

Dalai Lama XIV

#40. I am a disciplined person. When I am writing, I write for 7-8 hours.

Amish Tripathi

#41. A disciplined person is one who can do the right thing at the right time in the right way with the right spirit.

John Ortberg

#42. My father died when I was seven, leaving a widow and five sons, ranging in age from five to seventeen. My mother was the most highly-disciplined and hardest working person I have ever known, and this, combined with her love and gentleness, enabled her to make a success of each of her children.

Arthur Lewis