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Quotes About Discipline

The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
~ Donald Riggs
The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work.
~ Sarah Knowles Bolton
The secret of every man who has ever been successful lies in the fact that he formed the bait of doing those things that failures don't like to do.
~ A. Jackson King
Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.
~ James Q. Wilson
I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow.
~ Stonewall Jackson
When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.
~ Rudolf Nureyev
Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.
~ Aristotle
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
~ Xunzi
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
~ Xunzi
There is no doubt that the foundation of being a great yoga teacher is being a great yoga student.
~ Rod Stryker
When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
~ Mark Twain
The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
~ Tryon Edwards
If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.
~ Kurt Masur
Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.
~ Eugen Herrigel
Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
~ Herbert Hoover
These days, teachers have it rough. Kids can be hyperactive, disobedient, and obnoxious. It must feel like being locked in a room of drunk midgets.
~ Craig Ferguson
I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.
~ Forest Whitaker
We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.
~ Frank Rizzo
Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals
~ Jack Ramsay
Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
~ Terence
The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.
~ Laozi
Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
When I was at school I got lines for dropping a big squelchy, loud fart. My teacher, who was a priest, made me write 'I must not fart in class' 100 times. I left that school shortly afterwards.
~ Brian McFadden
Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.
~ Stevie Wonder