Quotes About Discipline

Soldiers learn to eat and sleep whenever they have the chance, because you never know when you might have to move without warning. And it could be a long time between meals.

It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit between its teeth. My mother taught me to gentle it; gave me the discipline and love to break it; and- as Alexander had known so intuitively with Bucephalus- she understood, and taught me, that the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun.

Tumultuouness,if coupled to discipline and cool mind,is not such a bad sort of thing.That unless one wants to live a stunningly boring life,one ought to terms with one`s darker side ad one`s darker energies

Navy Cotillion was where officers' children were supposed to learn the fine points of manners, dancing, white gloves, and other unrealities of life. It also was where children were supposed to learn, as if the preceding fourteen or fifteen years hadn't already made it painfully clear, that generals outrank colonels who, in turn, outrank majors and captains and lieutenants, and everyone, but everyone, outranks children. Within the ranks of children, boys always outrank girls.

I need to get ready. Ash? Touch the food and I won't take you for a driving lesson tomorrow. Dad? Touch it and I'll make you take him for a driving lesson tomorrow. Dad backed away from the counter. Ash scowled. I laughed and continued upstairs.

Barnes in there?" he asked, meaning the principal. I shook my head. "Haven't seen him. Ms. Morales was around, though." "Yeah, I talked to her. She says I need to talk to Barnes. Late once too often this week." That grin sparked again, like being late for school earned him a place in the bad boy hall of fame.

This was not a political party. It was an army.

Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain and discomfort that they could easily avoid, and the other half muttering meaningless mumbo jumbo in empty churches at all hours of the day and night. They deliberately shunned anything good—girls, sports, feasting and family life.

But you should go to bed." "With your ladyship's permission, I'd like to stay up until Lord Remarc telephones again.

Galliéni, a crusty old soldier, had been brought out of retirement. He was famous for holding meetings at which no one was allowed to sit down: he believed people reached decisions faster that way.

quick to comfort and advise, slow to command or punish.

Among monks generally there was a long-standing movement for reform of old institutions that had slipped into idleness and self-indulgence.

Let those to whom God gives the gift of abstinence know that they shall receive their proper reward

Sin embargo, un exceso de disciplina podía acabar con el pensamiento crítico.

from her training, that

I don't think it really matters whether parents are strict or lenient, as long as they're consistent. Kids can live with more or less any set of rules so long as they know what they are. It's arbitrary tyranny that gets them mixed up.

Es mejor contar con un ejército pequeño y disciplinado que tener una turba ingente que retroceda o se rinda a las primeras de cambio.

Although she was a martinet, tough on discipline, she gave her deputies room to make their own decisions. She

every day she would probably have

They looked impressively military, in

If somebody'd of come in and took a look, men watching a blank TV, a fifty-year old woman hollering and squealing at the back of their heads about discipline and order and recriminations, they'd of thought the whole bunch was crazy as loons.

Obsérvese que no estoy afirmando que la física moderna sostenga o demuestre una visión mística del mundo. Lo único que estoy diciendo es que esos físicos eran místicos, no que su disciplina fuera un quehacer místico o espiritual que conduzca a una visión religiosa del mundo.

The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.