Discipline Quotes - Page 4

• Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

  Frank Herbert

  Freedom, History, Desire

  Frank Herbert (1985). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Discipline must come through liberty.

  Maria Montessori

  Liberty, Mute, Montessori

  Maria Montessori (2012). “The Montessori Method”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.

  Horace

  Self, Mind, Theodore

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• Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Funny Inspirational, Octopus, Movement

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• Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

  Maria Montessori

  Silence, Individuality, Liberty

  Maria Montessori (2003). “The Montessori Method”, p.71, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.

  Helen Hayes

  Stay Strong, Self, Hiking

  Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.112, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Motivational, Family, Success

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• 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

  Men, Self, Individuality

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• Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

  Gautama Buddha

  Success, Meditation, Siddhartha

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• Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

  Theodor Adorno

  Inspirational, Self, Play

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.130, Verso

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• Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Law, Age

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Mean, Use, Absence

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.426, Transaction Publishers

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• Hard work pays off. When someone tells you otherwise, beware the sales pitch for something "fast and easy" that's about to come next. The greater your capacity for hard work, the more rewards fall within your grasp. The deeper you can dig, the more treasure you can potentially find.

  Steve Pavlina

  Fall, Hard Work, Next

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• When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  No Respect, Produce, Get Away

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• Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

  Barbara Ann Scott

  Exercise, Piano, Fingers

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• Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation.

  Roy Baumeister

  Running, Animal, Long

  "Why willpower matters – and how to get it" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

  Bernard Baruch

  Passion, Thinking, Knowing

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• I'm going to try to stay buff as long as I can, but it takes a lot of discipline and staying away from your favorite junk food!.

  Tobey Maguire

  Long, Trying, Junk

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• An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Self, Goal

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.

  Twyla Tharp

  Habit, Daily Routines

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Advice, Literature

  'Bleak House' (1853) ch. 27 (Mr Bagnet)

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• Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Simple, Agreement, Differences

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• It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Character, Track, Littles

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• Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline?

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Lines

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• Good discipline is more than just punishing or laying down the law. It is liking children and letting them see that they are liked. It is caring enough about them to provide good, clear rules for their protection.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Children, Caring, Law

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