Quotes About Discipline

God instituted sacrifice not for His own sake but for our sake. The sacrificial law is a means to God's glorious end: it disciplines His people, focusing their attention on worship, gratitude, sorrow for sin, the need for purity, and the necessity of renouncing everything in order to cling to God.

Romans 12:19 says, "Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath." God's wrath in a person's life often comes in the form of guilt and conviction. As parents, we need to stay out of the boxing ring and allow the Holy Spirit to convict our children of sin. Instead of getting into the ring with your children, imagine going around the ring to the child's corner and becoming a coach.

You'll need to discipline, but the way you do so can mean the difference between your child's heart being touched by God or being hardened by hurt and blame.

You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!

You'd best ask the lady boffin, sir," Newkirk said. "Midshipmen aren't allowed to have opinions.

Man muss immer tun, was man nicht lassen kann.

Like star that shines afar, slowly now, and without rest, let each man turn with steady sway, around the task that rules the day, and do his best.

With disciplined, with fierce, mute anger, Unconquerable battle lust, O Northern manhood's finest flower, O nonpareil youth of the East, 9790 Who wear the lightning of bright armor, Who break great empires like a reed— You pass, and thunder follows after, The earth shakes underneath your tread.

Everything that emancipates the spirit without giving us control over ourselves is harmful.

school-boy. The spectators thou regardest as on work-days they regard each other. For thee, then, it may be well to wish thyself behind a desk, over ruled ledgers, collecting tolls, and picking out reversions. Thou feelest not the co-operating, co-inspiring

The skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.

Wer Großes will, muß sich zusammenraffen; In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister, Und das Gesetz nur kann uns Freiheit geben.

Avoid temptation. Very few people could quit smoking without ridding their house of cigarettes. Alcoholics avoid bars to stop drinking. Protect yourself by protecting your environment. Decrease the time when you are exposed to rich foods to avoid testing your "willpower." One of the best ways to do this is to throw all the rich foods out of the house. Just as important is to replace harmful foods with those used in the McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss.

When you're full, you are not as strongly tempted to eat foods outside the program. A stomach full of well-prepared high-carbohydrate, low-fat foods effectively curbs your tendency to cheat yourself out of great looks and great health. Meanwhile, you'll appear to be a tower of strength and discipline to those around you—and you'll feel like one.

You cannot be a military leader without physical courage. But there are Plenty of soldiers with physical courage who are not leaders

Ten soldiers wisely led, Will beat a hundred without a head Euripides (fifth century BC)

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.

A warrior does not kill because it is his wish to, but because he must. And because he has been made strong enough to do it. Killing is not easy. It shouldn't be. If it becomes easy for you... you become a killer.

Something can (has) been said for sobriety but very little.

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.

To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.

The kids who could wait fifteen minutes for a marshmallow had an SAT score that was, on average, 210 points higher than that of the kids who could wait only thirty seconds.

As a lifetime proposition, happiness is a discipline, no doubt; but for moments at a time, it's a piece of luck. A piece of luck and a clue: a hint, not just of what might be, but of what already exists, in the heart of a man's heart...

The relentless rules of humble arithmetic.