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Who loves well, chastises well.
Proverb
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
One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.
Bob Richards
To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.
Jean Francois Regnard
Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.
M Scott Peck
When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, and disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Loving discipline encourages a child to respect other people and live as a responsible, constructive citizen.
Dr. James Dobson
Without discipline, there is no life at all.
Katharine Hepburn
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
James Russell Lowell
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
Steve Jobs
Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.
Hannah Whitall Smith
When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
Horace
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. Proverbs 29:15
Bible
No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham J. Heschel
No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.
John S. Bonnell
What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are. What we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
Henry Parry Liddon
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
Barbara Tuchman
