Discipline famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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All change begins with a DECISION. Once the decision is made, DISCIPLINE becomes the bridge between desire and accomplishment.
-- A. R. Bernard -
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.
-- Abraham Kaplan -
Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad but true that physics has irretrievably fallen apart from a cohesive to a fragmented discipline. ... It was not that long ago that people were complaining about two cultures. If we only had it that good. today.
-- Abraham Pais -
My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.
-- Adam Pally -
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 -
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave toward him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability.
-- Adam Smith -
For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to my mind were the most aggressive, and managed to keep their form in spite of their questionable discipline. Out of the line they were undoubtedly difficult to handle, but once in it they loved a fight. They were a curious mixture of toughness and sentimentality...
-- Adrian Carton de Wiart -
Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'
-- Adrian Rogers -
Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.
-- African Spir -
Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
-- Alain Badiou -
I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
-- Alain Badiou -
It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
-- Alan Cooper -
It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.
-- Alan Keyes -
There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right.
-- Alan Keyes -
I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
-- Alan Rickman -
I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.
-- Alan Shepard -
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
-- Alan Turing -
Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is a slave to his own weaknesses.
-- Alan Valentine -
When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.
-- Albert Einstein -
Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.
-- Albert Goodwill Spalding -
Flair is a primitive kind of style. It is innate and cannot be taught. It can be polished and refined. When a person has flair, a grounding in the principle of design, and self-discipline, that person has the potential of being an outstanding designer.
-- Albert Hadley -
Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality
-- Albert Hadley -
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
-- Aleister Crowley -
Traders lose because the game is hard, or out of ignorance, or lack of discipline or because of both.
-- Alexander Elder -
The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.
-- Alexander Paterson -
Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.
-- Alexis Carrel -
It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.
-- Alexis Ohanian -
There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.
-- Alfie Allen -
Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
-- Alfred Jarry -
It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.
-- Alfred Jodl -
Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules.
-- Alice Miller -
Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.
-- Alistair Cooke -
The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.
-- Allan Bloom -
What I believe...about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and lazy habits, which deaden the senses and become a retarder of accomplishment. To overcome these things in life requires discipline and restraint.
-- Alvin R. Dyer -
At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.
-- Amar Bose -
Too many people have refused to begin running or have quickly dropped out of running programs because they 'have no talent for it.' Ridiculous. Talent has nothing to do with it. The only thing that matters is mental discipline.
-- Amby Burfoot -
I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.
-- Amy Chua -
While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.
-- Anastas Mikoyan -
If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.
-- Andre Breton -
Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.
-- Andy Andrews -
I'm kind of a disciplined person but I don't take anything too seriously. And I think a lot of that had to do with the raising my parents gave me and my sister - Veronica Cartwright, who's an actress in her own right.
-- Angela Cartwright -
When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
-- Angela Davis -
Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.
-- Anil Ambani -
Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
-- Ann Patchett -
You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.
-- Anna Paskevska -
I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.
-- Anne Desclos -
The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.
-- Anne Truitt -
Just because I like sushi, doesn't mean I can make sushi. I've come to well understand how many years just to get sushi rice correct. It's a discipline that takes years and years and years. So, I leave that to the experts.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.
-- Anthony Braxton -
I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.
-- Anthony Braxton -
Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits, organised in some part according to social conventions, but also formed by personal inclinations and dispositions. Regimes are of central importance to self-identity precisely because they connect habits with aspects of the visible appearance of the body.
-- Anthony Giddens -
"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for rigidity of mind, there is no antidote. It carries the seeds of its own destruction.
-- Anton Myrer -
Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work...
-- Antonio Gramsci -
Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.
-- Aristotle -
There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect. Both are supplementary to each other and must be regarded as intimately connected. Discipline and freedom are thus to be seen as elements of equal weight, each partaking of the other.
-- Armin Hofmann -
My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others.
-- Armstrong Williams -
People say, My God, you're so disciplined. But it has nothing to do with discipline; I loved it. Because I knew that every time I went to the gym I was one step closer to winning the competition.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Through discipline, and determination one can change anything and everything about him - his habits, his outlook on life
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.
-- Arthur Lydiard -
To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition.
-- Arturo Sandoval -
What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyones ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.
-- Ashwin Sanghi -
What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can't even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at.
-- Atul Gawande -
I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on some part of my mind shut off and my training and discipline took over. I did what I had to do.
-- Audie Murphy -
As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn't love me!
-- Audrey Hepburn -
Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless "law" is equated with justice and "order" with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino -
Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
-- Barbara Ann Scott -
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure — is to shut up. He has no discipline.
-- Barry Goldwater -
My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.
-- Barry Sanders -
Discipline is the servant of inspiration.
-- Bebe Moore Campbell -
Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it's done.
-- Ben Harper -
Every age and degree of understanding should have its proper measure of discipline. With regard to boys and adolescents, therefore, or those who cannot understand the seriousness of the penalty of excommunication, whenever such as these are delinquent let them be subjected to severe fasts or brought to terms by harsh beatings, that they may be cured.
-- Benedict of Nursia -
I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.
-- Benjamin Spock -
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
-- Bernard Baruch -
Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery -
It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.
-- Bernice Johnson Reagon -
I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.
-- Bernie Mac -
The discipline 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 -
A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people...
-- Bessie Head -
Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.
-- Bette Davis -
Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.
-- Bill Bruford -
Anyone who has brought up children knows that consistency has absolutely nothing to do with discipline.
-- Bill Cosby -
Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
-- Bill Hybels
