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Quotes About Discipline

The true religion is monastic, ascetic, authoritarian, hierarchical.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The modern mentality does not conceive that order can be imposed without resorting to police regulations.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
What do you want?" in a curt hard voice, which he had practised in his room in private, and before the looking-glass, for a whole week before being raised to his present rank.
~ Nikolai Gogol
SILENCE you miserable cretins!
~ Nikolas Schreck
To work in the world is hard, to refrain from all unnecessary work is even harder.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Learn the lines and don't bump into the furniture.
~ Noel Coward
To rise at six, dine at ten, Sup at five, to bed at ten, Makes man live ten times ten.
~ Noah Gordon
Fathers, on the other hand, were there to toughen children up, to say Walk it off when mothers would hold them if they fell. Mothers were the carrot. Fathers were the stick.
~ Noah Hawley
The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw over and over that my mind and body could be filled with desire and that no matter how intense the craving was it would always pass. I didn't have to satisfy every desire that arose in my mind. I began to understand impermanence through direct experience rather than just intellectual theory.
~ Noah Levine
We commit to the daily disciplined practices of meditation, yoga, exercise, wise actions, kindness, forgiveness, generosity, compassion, appreciation, and moment-to-moment mindfulness of feelings, emotions, thoughts, and sensations. We are developing the skillful means of knowing how to apply the appropriate meditation or action to the given circumstance.
~ Noah Levine
Anjing dipelihara dengan diberi makan. Manusia dipelihara dengan diberi uang. Tapi, tak seorangpun bisa memelihara serigala dari Mibu! (Hajime Saito)
~ Nobuhiro Watsuki
According to her views," her niece later recalled, "little girls were to be taught to move very gently, to speak softly and prettily, to say 'yes, ma'am' and 'no, ma'am,' never to tear their clothes, to sew, to knit at regular hours, to go to church on Sunday and make all the responses, and to come home and be catechised." Harriet
~ Unknown
What I adore is supreme professionalism. I'm bored by writers who can write only when it's raining.
~ Noel Coward
Financial discipline demands that you have a budget. Control your money. Do not let money control you. Discipline yourself to make sure that the flow of your money is gong in the right direction at all times.
~ Unknown
I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.
~ Norah Jones
Like so many other high school discipline cases, he'd probably been given some hybrid cockamamie ADHD- bipolar diagnosis at a very young age and been medicated into submission for the benefit of his homeroom teacher. We've all read about them in the paper, the problem kids who get slapped with five disorders by the time they're twelve, and horse-pilled by a culture that has pathologized everything from PMS to teen angst.
~ Norah Vincent
I am always polishing my sword. I am always perfecting my style." Ã¢â'¬â€œ Musashi Myamoto
~ Unknown
The student should master the entire work in not more than two hours.
~ Unknown
If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.
~ Norman Maclean
For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He remains a pleasure-seeking animal.
~ Norman O. Brown
Parental discipline, religious denunciation of bodily pleasure, and philosophic exaltation of the life of reason have all left man overtly docile, but secretly in his unconscious unconvinced, and therefore neurotic
~ Norman O. Brown
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
~ Norman Podhoretz
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
~ Norman Podhoretz
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf