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Quotes About Discipline

A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.
~ Martin Luther
In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.
~ Plutarch
There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.
~ Publilius Syrus
Keep your mind out of the pigsty, man!
~ Robert Jordan
Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
~ Hesiod
I'm nice with damn kids, man. Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids and I can get into the mind of a kid.
~ J. B. Smoove
No secret man. Just starvation, hunger and diet.
~ Joe Calzaghe
Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
~ Johannes Tauler
The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes.
~ John Adams
When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?
~ John Calvin
Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.
~ John Ruskin
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
~ Erma Bombeck
A mom and dad found an S&M magazine under their 10-year-old son's bed, and the dad said, 'Well, we sure can't spank him.'
~ Dana Carvey
So when your mom walks in, turn down the volume and act like you're doing your homework.
~ Willie D