(914 quotes found)
“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
Frank Herbert
“Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.”
Tenzin Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama
“Discipline trains you to put up with disappointments, every rose has a thorn.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is ... that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.”
Adam Smith
“Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.”
Maria Montessori
“The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration...The time is come- it is now- when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government.”
Peter Marshall
“Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline”
Edwin P. Whipple
“No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.”
Seneca
“Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.”
Critias of Athens