Quotes About Discipline

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

I am convinced that in times such as these, every man must be a soldier, in substance as well as in name.

If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.

No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.

If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.

The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will never get very far.

They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.

The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man.

The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.

I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and asking himself "What good shall I do this day?

I just hope bluegrass entertainers take care of their music and take care of their fans. If you don't practice, the man next door who is practicing will beat you.

Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day.

If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25

For there is no business of life, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man, who has an inclination, to give a little time every day to the studies of his youth.

Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

A real man is capable of controlling himself before he controls his children.

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.