Discipline Quotes - Page 16

• Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.

  Pat Summitt

  Goal, Effort, Groups

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

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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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• There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Struggle, Roots, Would Be

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• The divine within you is stronger than anything that is without you. Therefore, be not afraid of anything. Rely on your own Inner Self, the Divinity within you. Tap the source through looking within. Improve yourself. Build your character. Purify the heart. Develop the divine virtues. Eradicate evil traits. Conquer all that is base in you. Endeavor to attain all that is worthy and noble. Make the lower nature the servant of the higher through discipline, Tapas, self-restraint and meditation. This is the beginning of your freedom.

  Sivananda

  Character, Heart, Self

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• The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; the discipline of the New Testament, as a discipline teaching us to die to it.

  Matthew Arnold

  Teaching, May, Sin

  Matthew Arnold (1875). “Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism”, p.137

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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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• When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline, and my relationships. I left prison more informed than when I went in. And the more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Thinking, Wrath

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• I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies - bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.

  Martha Graham

  Beautiful, Believe, Mean

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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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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• We don't drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.

  Andy Stanley

  Prioritize, Stanley

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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 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're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.

  Robert Knepper

  Growing Up, Kids, Parent

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• The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity, as often happens in old-time discipline . . . A room in which all the children move about usefully, intelligently, and voluntarily, without committing any rough or rude act, would seem to me a classroom very well disciplined indeed.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Lying, Moving

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in the Children's Houses with Additions and Revisions”, p.99, Read Books Ltd

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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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• I never made any money from my music. I don't make that much; I make it flip-flopping between five and ten different disciplines.

  Charlemagne Palestine

  Different, Flip, Made

  Source: thequietus.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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• Modeling gave me a strong discipline of professionalism where you work very long hours.

  Jaime King

  Strong, Long, Professionalism

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• On top of whatever else I'm doing, I'm usually teaching some form of composition. The benefit of this is I get to read across disciplines. Often enough that work spills over to my creative reading/thinking, and I reach a point of saturation where I can't distinguish between texts and writers and everything starts to blur and smudge together.

  Gregory Pardlo

  Teaching, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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