Discipline Quotes - Page 37

• 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

  Wish, Limits, Latter

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.31, Macmillan

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• Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

  Charles Stanley

  Running, Pain, Agony

  Charles Stanley (1991). “How to Handle Adversity”, p.89, Thomas Nelson

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• It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.

  Lew Wallace

  Wise, Band, Slips

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur (Illustrated): Historical Novel - A Tale of the Christ”, p.256, e-artnow

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• Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.

  William Feather

  Weak, Grows

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• The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how brutal (within the bounds of the company's core values), to make the company great. Yet at the same time they display a remarkable humility about themselves, ascribing much of their own success to luck, discipline and preparation rather than personal genius.

  James C. Collins

  Success, Leadership, Humility

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• When a woman is fit and healthy, everything else falls into place. We are conditioned to put others first, that 'burnt chop syndrome' we observed in our mothers. It takes discipline to pay attention to our diets, to exercise, to leave time for refreshment of mind, body and spirit.

  Quentin Bryce

  Mother, Women, Fall

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• The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status.

  Fred Brooks

  Boss, Information, Firsts

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• Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Religious, Pain, Animal

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• It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Fine, Seems

  "Memoirs".

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• Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.

  Bernard Baruch

  Love, Mistake, Heart

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• The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Mother, Father

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.26, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision.

  Merrill Brockway

  Dance, Passion, Responsibility

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• Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.

  Anna Paskevska

  Dance, Children, Grace

  Anna Paskevska (2013). “Ballet: From the First Plie to Mastery, An Eight-Year Course”, p.6, Routledge

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• Experts in aging make a distinction between passive aging and purposeful aging. Successful, purposeful aging calls for continued involvement, relationships, discipline, and an attitude of faith.

  George Sweeting

  Attitude, Successful, Age

  George Sweeting (2008). “The Joys of Successful Aging: Living Your Days to the Fullest”, p.64, Moody Publishers

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• Team learning is the Process of aligning and developing the capacity of a team to create the results its members desire. It builds on the discipline of developing a shared vision. It also builds on personal mastery, for talented teams are made up of talented individuals.

  Peter Senge

  Teamwork, Educational, Personal Mastery

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• Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.

  Peter Senge

  Reality, Personal Mastery, Focus

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.14, Random House

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• It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Struggle, Buddhism

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• Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Ocean, Teaching

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• Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the Discipline. If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: 'Certainly, this is not the Blessed One's utterance; this has been misunderstood by that bhikkhu - or by that community, or by those elders, or by that elder.' In that way, bhikkhus, you should reject it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Blessed, Community

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• In Aryans' Discipline, to build a friendship is to build wealth, To maintain a friendship is to maintain wealth and To end a friendship is to end wealth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Wealth, Ends

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• There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Meditation And Yoga

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• The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Self, Masters

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• The discipline which I have imparted to you will lead you when I am gone. Practice mindfulness diligently, to attain the goal of awakening.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Practice, Goal

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• For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

  Plato

  Plato, Men, Victory

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• Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons, some protection had to be given to the growing plants and animals, harvests had to be reaped, stored and divided. Thus, we might argue that it was neither leisure time nor a sedentary existence but the more rigorous demands associated with an agricultural way of life that led to great cultural changes.

  Charles Heiser

  Garden, Animal, Agriculture

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