“He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding (Proverbs 15:32).”
Bible
“We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a person's duty to understand the world rather than simply fight for it”
Ernest Hemingway
“He that cannot obey, cannot command.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of Love, and”
Mary Baker Eddy
“There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.”
Buddha
“It is so easy to give a naughty boy a slap, overpower him in an instant, and make him obey, that in this world of hurry and distraction, who can possibly spend time to wait for the slow return of his reason and the conquest of himself in the uncertai”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“An act carelessly performed, a broken vow, and hesitating obedience to discipline, all this brings no great reward.”
Friedrich Max Muller