Discipline Quotes - Page 13

• The habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good person, all of which must be drawn from within.

  Edwin J Delattre

  Powerful, Character, Self

  Edwin J. Delattre (2011). “Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing”, p.7, AEI Press

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• A two-year-old can be taught to curb his aggressions completely if the parents employ strong enough methods, but the achievement of such control at an early age may be bought at a price which few parents today would be willing to pay. The slow education for control demands much more parental time and patience at the beginning, but the child who learns control in this way will be the child who acquires healthy self-discipline later.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Strong, Children, Self

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• We find that the child who does not yet have language at his command, the child under two and a half, will be able to cooperate with our education if we go easy on the "blocking" techniques, the outright prohibitions, the "no's" and go heavy on "substitution" techniques, that is, the redirection or certain impulses and the offering of substitute satisfactions.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Block, Offering

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• Research has convincingly demonstrated that using the "rod" creates children who are not more obedient but who are instead simplymore angry and aggressive than other kids. Parents who routinely slap or strike their children are actually handing them a model of violence to imitate--and many do indeed grow to be abusive, some even murderously so.

  Julius Segal

  Children, Kids, Parent

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• Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously, that you might as well not have lived at all. In which case you have failed by default. Failure gave me an inner security that I had never obtained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things that I could not have learned any other way. I discovered I had a strong will and more discipline than I had suspected.

  J. K. Rowling

  Strong, Examination, Might

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• You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

  Stephen Covey

  Self, Roots, Good Relationship

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• Here is an example of Confucius sayings: "It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." In a few words, Confucius teaches us about patience, perseverance, discipline, and hard work. But if you probe further, you will see more layers. Confucius' philosophies have significantly influenced spiritual and social thought. His views bear insight and depth of wisdom. You can apply his teachings in every sphere of life. Confucius' profound teachings are based on humanism.

  Confucius

  Spiritual, Perseverance, Philosophy

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• If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program.

  Bear Bryant

  Successful, Alabama Football, Program

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• If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.

  Bear Bryant

  Self, Worthwhile, Athletics

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• Winning the men's confidence requires much of a commander. He must exercise care and caution, look after his men, live under the same hardships, and-above all- apply self discipline. But once he has their confidence, his men will follow him through hell and high water.

  Erwin Rommel

  Exercise, Winning, Men

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• But we can do nothing for the human future that we will not do for the human present. For the amelioration of the future condition of our kind we must look, not to the wealth or the genius of the coming generations, but to the quality of the disciplines and attitudes that we are preparing now for their use.

  Wendell Berry

  Attitude, Quality, Environmental

  Wendell Berry (2012). “A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural”, p.127, Counterpoint Press

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• Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

  Pat Summitt

  Jobs, Average, Excellent Work

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.193, Crown Business

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• Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Heart, Self

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• The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Weed, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Spiritual, Journey, Law

  Rabindranath Tagore (2006). “Sadhana”, p.88, 1st World Publishing

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• The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to discipline the body, to find courage, to renew faith and to become one's own person, utterly and completely.

  George A. Sheehan

  Powerful, Tunes, Body

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Honesty, Character, Mean

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• When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes...By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the meaning of discipline and its reward: freedom and power.

  May Sarton

  Feelings, Looks, Rewards

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• When one is total, life flowers - and that flowering is spirituality. Spirituality is not an attitude, it is not a discipline. It is an outcome of a life lived totally, joyfully, delightfully; of a life of no complaint; of a life lived courageously, intensely. Then this flowering happens.

  Rajneesh

  Attitude, Flower, Outcomes

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• A prince must not have any objective nor any thought, nor take up any art, other than the art of war and its ordering and discipline; because it is the only art that pertains to him who commands. And it is of such virtue that not only does it maintain those who were born princes, but many times makes men rise to that rank from private station.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Men

  The Prince ch. 14 (1532) (translation by Angelo M. Codevilla)

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• In Pakistan lies our deliverance, defence and honour...In our solidarity, unity and discipline lie the strength, power and sanction behind us to carry on this fight successfully. No sacrifice should be considered too great. We shall never accept any future constitution on the basis of a united India.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Lying, Sacrifice, Fighting

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• We have weathered the worst storms and the safety of the shore, though distant, is in sight. We can look to the future with robust confidence provided we do not relax and fritter away our energies in internal dissensions. There never was greater need for discipline and unity in our ranks. It is only with united effort and faith in our destiny that we shall be able to translate the Pakistan of our dreams into reality.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Dream, Reality, Destiny

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• If you want to make better theory, you've got to use the best that's available and look through the lens of another discipline to see if you can uncover more anomalies. By looking at the phenomena of failure from the perspective of sales, marketing, finance, general management, and the equity markets, I was able to see things that Rebecca [Henderson] hadn't.

  Clayton Christensen

  Perspective, Marketing, Want

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• The most self-disciplined people in the world aren't born with it, but at one point they start to think differently about self discipline. Easy, short-term choices lead to different long-term consequences. Difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences. What we thought was the easy way led to a much more difficult life. I think that motivation is sort of like a unicorn that people chance like a magic pill that will make them suddenly want to work hard. It's not out there.

  Rory Vaden

  Motivation, Hard Work, Thinking

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• The amount of our endurance is directly proportionate to the clarity of our vision, so the practical application is we need to spend time to develop clarity of vision. What do you want your life to look like five, ten or fifteen years from now? Oftentimes, it's not so much a lack of discipline but a lack of vision.

  Rory Vaden

  Years, Vision, Endurance

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