Quotes About Discipline

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

There is nothing more dangerous than a lazy parent.

First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.

From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

A child may be "spoiled" by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly.

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.

The hardest part about parenting is when I have to be The Dad--aka the Fun-Sucker--as opposed to being a friend.

We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up.

Ninja mom's understand that training time is never wasted time.

Ninja's understand that training time is never wasted time.

A man that can master patience can master anything.

Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.

You need to learn patience, you grasshopper

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Patience and discipline can make you look foolishly out of touch until they make you look prudent and even prescient

Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.

Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.

Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.

It's true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.

Patience is one of the most valuable attributes in investing.