| "Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority." »Bertrand Russell |
| "There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction." »John Dewey |
| "It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner." »Vince Lombardi |
| "Without discipline, there's no life at all." »Katharine Hepburn |
| "Error is discipline through which we advance." »William Ellery Channing |
| "discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." »Jim Rohn |
| "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him." »Rachel Carson |
| "Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another." »Joseph Addison |
| "A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind." »Edmund Spenser |
| "No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding." »Proverbs 1532 Bible |
| "The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him." »Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| "There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline." »Michel Eyquem de Montaigne |
| "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 |
| "Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet." »Michael Brian Schiffer |
| "Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance." »James Arthur Baldwin |
| "Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks." »Joe Paterno |
| "Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline." »Edwin Percy Whipple |
| "Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself." »Rabbi Abraham Heschel |
| "In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first." »Harry S Truman |
| "The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others." »Tryon Edwards |
| "A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands." »Niccolo Machiavelli |
| "Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were." »David Rockefeller |
| "Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable." »Martin Luther |
| "Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only." »Samuel Smiles |
| "The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline." »George J. Seidel |
| "To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter." »Aleister Crowley |
| "The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation." »Tom Naylor |
| "Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom-discipline, tolerance, honesty-is one of the most important ways children learn how to function in society at large." »Eloise Salholz |
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