Quotes About Discipline

most difficult of all, regardless of how she acts. This does not mean that we like all of her behavior. It does mean that we give and show love to our child all the time, even when her behavior is poor.

To be effective in discipline, parents must keep the child's emotional love tank filled with love. In fact, disciplining without love is like trying to run a machine without oil. It may appear to be working for a while, but will end in disaster.

When we correct our children about their language, teaching them which words are appropriate and which aren't, they listen.

Better to be patient than powerful; better to have self-control than to conquer a city. —Proverbs 16:32

How can a young person stay pure? By obeying your word. —Psalm 119:9

That kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth. Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct. I need to be loved by someone who chooses to love me, who sees in me something worth loving.

And now a word to you fathers. Don't make your children angry by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction approved by the Lord. —Ephesians 6:4

When your child feels loved, he is much easier to discipline and train than when his "emotional tank" is running near empty.

Let us cleanse ourselves from everything that can defile our body or spirit. And let us work toward complete holiness because we fear God. —2 Corinthians 7:1

If God doesn't discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children at all. —Hebrews 12:8

God disciplines us because He loves us, not just when we do wrong, but to prepare us for the days ahead. — Karl Cumberland —

Falling in love is not real because it is effortless. Whatever we do in the in-love state requires little discipline or conscious effort on our part.

That kind of love requires effort and discipline. It is the choice to expend energy in an effort to benefit the other person, knowing that if his or her life is enriched by your effort, you too will find a sense of satisfaction -- the satisfaction of having genuinely loved another

We can recognize the in-love experience for what it was—a temporary emotional high—and now pursue "real love" with our spouse. That kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth.

kind of love requires effort and discipline.

People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures." —F. M. Alexander

Success is actually a short race—a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

you can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.

So, if you want to get the most out of your day, do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early, before your willpower is drawn down. Since your self-control will be sapped throughout the day, use it when it's at full strength on what matters most.

He decided to stop every hour for ten minutes. Derek had told him once that that was what the military did on long marches—a ten-minute break every hour

with a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students

the man who has the soul of the wolf knows the self-restraint of the wolf

I love to roam around and I like tough self-discipline, I don't mind hard work and being poor never bothered me. I guess that's what makes it possible to carry on like I do. Being free doesn't mean evading necessity, it means outsmarting it.

We are what we repeatedly do. Aristotle