Quotes About Discipline

Perhaps discipline will be restored in our civilization through the military training required by the challenges of war. The freedom of the part varies with the security of the whole; individualism will diminish in America and England as geographical protection ceases. Sexual license may cure itself through its own excess; our unmoored children may live to see order and modesty become fashionable; clothing will be more stimulating than nudity.

Let me have seven hours a week, and I will make a scholar and a philosopher out of you; in four years, you shall be as well educated as any new-fledged Doctor of Philosophy in the land.

Every philosopher should be an athlete. If he is not, let us suspect his philosophy.

One cannot go about indiscriminately telling the truth. It must be doled out in bits and pieces or no one shall ever believe it.

First of all, the Captain rates the honorific 'sir.' You will render that honorific or I will plant my foot in your ass.

The most creative leaders are smart yet naive, playful but disciplined, humble, and proud.

I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately I am inspired at 9 o'clock every morning.

I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi

In the army, you dont ask what you are going to do: you just do it. In fact, the way to get along in any army is never even to wonder why they want something done or what they are going to do with it after it's finished, but just do it and then get out of sight so that they cant just happen to see you by accident and then think up something for you to do, but instead they will have to have thought up something to be done, and then hunt for somebody to do it.

I write when I am inspired and I make sure I am inspired every day.

Something she'd gotten from Burton and the Corps, that you didn't do things in the clothes you sat around in. You got yourself squared away, then your intent did too.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English; and the English are the best at everything. So we've got to do the right things

Kurallardan baÅŸka bir ÅŸeyimiz yok ki bizim!

In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

Parents often say, "Don't let me catch you doing that again!" and that is all right, but a good, honest life is more than that. Moral development is not a game of "Catch me if you can." It is better to focus clearly on what really matters: the kind of person one is.

Who among you would teach your boys that ease, that peace is to be the first consideration in your eyes—to be the ultimate goal after which they strive? You men of Chicago have made this city great, you men of Illinois have done your share, and more than your share, in making America great, because you neither preach nor practice such a doctrine. You work yourselves, and you bring up your sons to work.

do every day or two something for no other reason that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

Get back to work , he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne.

The best soldiers are not warlike.

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who tread on their toes.

He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.