Quotes About Discipline

Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.

There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth.

Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.

There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.

The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.

The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.

I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.

Obedience is the road to freedom.

Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.

We must raise and train an army of fighters for freedom.

Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

Creativity needs discipline and freedom.

Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it.