(967 quotes found)
“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
“Sailors, with their built-in sense of order and discipline, should really be running the world.”
Admiral (Lord) Louis Mountbatten
“Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.”
M. Scott Peck
“Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.”
Tom Kite
“The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him”
Rachel Carson
“Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.”
Henry Moore
“Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.”
Tenzin Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama
“When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness”
James Allen
