Quotes About Discipline

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

Freedom does not mean license.

Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.

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.

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.

We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.

Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline?

Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.

To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.

When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes...By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the meaning of discipline and its reward: freedom and power.

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

Discipline gives you the freedom to be creative.

It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.

Obedience is the path to freedom.

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

Kaz's art is a powerful example of discipline and freedom. His classical calligraphy captures the inner movement and stillness of the brush and mind.

In Aryans' Discipline, to build a friendship is to build wealth, To maintain a friendship is to maintain wealth and To end a friendship is to end wealth.

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating.