Quotes About Discipline

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.

I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.

Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.

A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.

By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.

To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.

The superior man limits his achievements.

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.

Late to bed, late to rise, makes a man unhealthy, poor, and stupid.

There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.

Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.

My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'