Quotes About Discipline

I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

The match losses the one who cannot control himself.

It was the way of his father's house. Carrot and stick.

abstemiousness

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Dis-toi que l'éducation commencera le jour où l'atmosphère sera complètement débarrassée du moindre miasme de « sanction ». Et les plus difficiles à désinfecter seront peut-être les enfants. (p. 27)

ruthless efficiency

The avant-garde has always existed throughout the history of mankind. The good things from the avant-garde last and eventually, after many years, become tradition and people forget they were ever part of the avant-garde. The kitchen is a living discipline, always evolving, and there will always be cutting edge things that over the years, ends up being part of tradition.

In every society are men of base instincts. The sadists, brutes, conveyors of all the ancestral atavisms go about in the guise of human beings, but they are monsters, only more or less restrained by discipline and social habit. If they are offered a drink from a river of blood, they will not be satisfied until they drink the river dry.

Let no man's ghost return to say his training let him down.

I always made sure to put them back in the exact order in which I had found them, for fear of losing the privilege of browsing in my uncle's library.

I knew Frédérique wouldn't write. But I persevered in the pleasure of taking my sadness to the limit, the way one does with some practical joke. The pleasure of disappointment. It wasn't new to me. I had been relishing it ever since I was eight years old, a boarder in my first, religious, school. And perhaps they were the best years, I thought. Those years of discipline. There was a kind of elation, faint but constant throughout all those days of discipline, the sweet days of discipline.

I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

Parents who give a lot of warnings raise kids who don't behave until they've had a lot of warnings.

If children were meant to run the home, they would have been born larger.

Train children in the right way,              and when old, they will not stray. (Proverbs 22:6)

Effective parenting centers around love: love that is not permissive, love that doesn't tolerate disrespect, but also love that is powerful enough to allow kids to make mistakes and permit them to live with the consequences of those mistakes.

Drill sergeant kids, who did a lot of saluting when they were young, will do a lot of saluting when teenagers, but the salute is different: a raised fist or a crude gesture involving the middle finger.

and spending so little time with their kids. Rather than holding their children accountable for their actions, they simply let them run free, believing that "quality" time will make up for the lack of "quantity" of time they spend with their children and that responsibility will eventually rub off on the children during the right "quality" moments.

Train children in the right way, and when old, they will not stray. Proverbs 22:6

A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who she's looking at.

Refuse to be a slave of anything on earth.

Discipline is the impossible conquered by the obstinate repetition of the possible.

Disiplin imkanl? olan?n ?srarla tekrarlanmas?yla fethedilen imkans?zl?kt?r.