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Quotes About Discipline

When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?
~ Patricia Ireland
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking
~ Jessamyn West
Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
~ Chanakya
Deadbeat dads should be publicly flogged! All parents SHOULD live up to their obligations.
~ Unknown
The mark of a strong character lies not in doing what is fun to do or what is easy to do. The sign of deep moral authority appears in the individual who consistently does what they ought to be doing rather than what they feels like doing...
~ Unknown
Being a 'male' is a matter of gender...being a man is a matter of choice, discipline, habit, and maturity. Age doesn't make you a man.
~ Unknown
The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option
~ James Patterson
It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
One of the major destruction of man is distraction
~ Steven Chuks Nwaokeke
You learn to run by running.
~ Unknown
Yet a little sleep a little slumber a little folding of the hands to sleep.
~ Anonymous
For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.
~ Janine Benyus
Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.
~ Sun Ra
Attention must be paid' is the cardinal rule of design discipline, for the designer is above all someone who pays attention to the situation at hand.
~ Ralph Caplan
Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y.
~ Massimo Vignelli
The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
If something is not good enough, stop doing it.
~ Jonathan Ive
Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.
~ Moshe Safdie
All change begins with a DECISION. Once the decision is made, DISCIPLINE becomes the bridge between desire and accomplishment.
~ A. R. Bernard
To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
~ Maimonides
Everyone wants to change, but change demands desire and discipline before it becomes delightful. There is always the agony of choice before the promise of change.
~ Larry Lea
Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.
~ Hakuin Ekaku
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
~ John Locke