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Quotes About Discipline

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
Then I remembered that these men didn't seem any cleverer than I was; they were highly trained, that was all. If one worked hard enough, one could master anything.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
THE POWER OF detaching his mind at will.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Mr. Mac, the most practical thing that you ever did in your life would be to shut yourself up for three months and read twelve hours a day at the annals of crime.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I clear breakfast at ten o'clock. I set on lunch at one. Dinner I set on at six. It's ten o'clock.
~ Shirley Jackson
Mary Katherine must never be punished. Must never be sent to bed without her dinner. Mary Katherine will never allow herself to do anything inviting punishment.
~ Shirley Jackson
One drop of joy plus courage becomes passion, which enables you to take effective action without thought. One drop of joy plus discipline becomes empathy, the ability to know that your emotions are real and all those around you are real, which then restores your God-consciousness.
~ Shirley MacLaine
The fact is, if his majesty had been a little boy, he would have been whipped and sent to bed for the sulks;
~ Sidney Lanier
Olgunluk, doyumu erteleyebilme kabiliyetidir.
~ Sigmund Freud
Prayers, fasts, everything he had practiced because he had been taught to do so, suddenly seemed new to him—weapons in a glorious war for which he longed. Perhaps he would become a monk—or a priest
~ Sigrid Undset
Soldaten sollten diszipliniert werden, nicht hospitalisiert.
~ Simon Scarrow
In Japan it is more: precision in all things—not least in everyday railway services of such legendary punctuality that an apology had to be offered late in 2017 when an express left twenty seconds early—can be thought of as part of the national religion.
~ Simon Winchester
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
If you are going to resist the desires of the flesh (negative), you will need to live in the power of the Holy Spirit and walk according to his disciplines (positive).
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
that we need to be in a real war again, in order to learn Discipline! We don't want all this highbrow intellectuality, all this book-learning. That's good enough in its way, but isn't it, after all, just a nice toy for grownups?
~ Sinclair Lewis
The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.
~ Sir Walter Scott
Teach self denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.
~ Sir Walter Scott
Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Mum's like one of those dressage riders on TV. She changes her voice an iota and we all obey her instantly, like trained Olympic horses.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.
~ Sophocles
Harsh ways are taught by harshness.
~ Sophocles
No one with any sense of self-control.
~ Sophocles