Quotes About Discipline

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Uno non può possedere capacità più grande o più piccola della padronanza di se stesso.

People eulogize Smith Wigglesworth. They call him a prophet of faith. But what they don't know is he sat almost all day, every day, reading the Bible, praying, and ministering to people. If you had asked him to do something else, he would have thought you were crazy. His knowledge of God was tremendous.

Faith grows and develops in the same ways our physical bodies grow and develop—by eating good food and exercising properly. The food that faith thrives on is the Word of God (1 Peter 2:2; Romans 10:17), and the faith in our hearts is to be exercised through regular use.

Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!

I warn you, dear child. If I lose my temper, you lose your head. Understand?

Really, Dinah ought to have taught you better manners! You ought, Dinah, you know you ought!

When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

We abandon our backboards along with our decorum, racing for the stairs and the promise of freedom, however temporary it may be. Walk! Mrs. Nightwing shouts. When we cannot seem to heed her advice, she bellows after us that we are savages not fit for marriage. She adds that we shall be the shame of the school and something else besides, but we are down the first flight of stairs, and her words cannot touch us.

Qwilleran said, "If I had a dog, it would be a German shepherd.

Never run if you can walk, never walk if you can stand, never stand if you can sit, and never sit if you can lie." "Never talk if you can listen

If I were any man but myself," he said, "I would turn you over my knee and blister your backside!" Tossing

Steven's patience had been taxed to the limits. He'd never in his life laid a hand on a female in anger, but he was sorely tempted to haul this one off to the woodshed and blister her backside.

Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

SpecWar superstuds were not Arnold Schwarzenegger. They were Buddhist monks.

I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline they're in.

It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen?