Quotes About Discipline

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.

My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.

I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

I grew up in a Navy family.

Growing up, there wasn't much emphasis on being nice or naughty. As a family, there wasn't much discipline. It was more relaxed at home, which I'm grateful for.

In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.

Let's face it there's lots of spoiled kids out there . . . because you can't spank Grandma.

Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

Do your best when no one is looking.

You can't hire someone to practice for you.

Winners do what losers don't want to do.

I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get killed on your own time.

I really connected with martial arts. I'd always had a fantasy as a kid of being a ninja warrior, so it definitely answered that sort of need in my psyche, too - a need to be superpowerful.

Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done.

The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.

A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied.

I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with it.

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.

When a father is quick to lose his tempre, his sons are fools.

All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.

My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.