Quotes About Discipline

Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.

The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.

We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

Wing Chun teaches you what to concentrate on, whether you're here or out in the world dealing with problems. It's second nature for me now. I don't even get to the point where there's a problem.

I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.

Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

It is in vain to chase two birds at the same time, even if you have a thousand legs.

Delayed gratification is to have a strong faith in the laws of nature and the principles of God.

Thank God ever morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.

The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.