Quotes About Discipline

My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser

So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie

Once I told him I thought beating your son was a most uncivilized method of getting your own way. He said I'd about as much sense as the post I was standing next to, if as much. He said respect for your elders was one of the cornerstones of civilized behavior, and until I learned that, I'd better get used to looking at my toes while one of my barbaric elders thrashed my arse off.

Like plumbing, medicine is a profession where you learn early on not to put your fingers in your mouth.

I've said often enough, and the good Lord kens weel enough that boys were meant to be smacked, or he'd not ha' filled 'em sae full o' the de'il.

Because, Sassenach," he said, very dryly indeed, "when ye're a man, a good bit of what ye have to do is to draw up lines and fight other folk who come over them. Your enemies, your tenants, your children—your wife. Ye canna always just strike them or take a strap to them, but when ye can, at least it's clear to everyone who's in charge.

That's simple. You reason with them, and when you're through, I'll take them out and thrash them.

If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it.

God kens well enough that boys need to be smacked, or he'd no fill them sae full o' the de'il.

motioned to the sergeant-major to turn the prisoner around to show his back.

Stand up straight and try not to get fat.

earth that would make him humiliate himself in that fashion before the Sergeant. "Write. It. Down." The Sergeant bit off the words between his teeth.

Que todo el mundo se calle —ordenó con firmeza—. Voy a leer.

You may," Tom Byrd corrected, entering with his hands full of grooming implements, "once I've put his lordship's hair to rights." He fixed Grey with a minatory eye. "You're not a-going in to dinner like that, me lord, and don't you think it. You sit down there." He pointed sternly to a stool, and Lieutenant-Colonel Grey, commander of His Majesty's forces in Jamaica, meekly obeyed the dictates of his twenty-one-year-old valet.

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

I learned from my dad and my mom somebody should only have to tell you once. Whether it's me getting in trouble, they said I should only have to tell you once. I've kind of took that and made that for all aspects.

I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.

I was an athlete when I was growing up.

I'm an athlete in general.

Athletes are very cool to me.

They see themselves as athletes and only athletes.

I am one of those athletes who is very hard on myself.

I don't think I have whatever that thing is that makes some athletes bad with money.

I've been around enough athletes to know when someone is working, someone's not.