Good Discipline Quotes

• 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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• The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Dance, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2001). “What It Takes To Be Number #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.18, McGraw Hill Professional

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• To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happy, Peace, Buddhist

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• Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

  William Hague

  Discipline, Common Sense, High Standards

  "Hague's 'foreign land' speech". William Hague's speech to the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

  Clint Eastwood

  Discipline, Gone, Might

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• Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Men

  "The Art of War". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, as translated by Neal Wood (1965), 1520.

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• In certain areas I don't function well and in other areas I function very well. I'm very good professionally. I have good discipline, I'm able to write every day and do films and not go six times over the budget. I mean I'm a coherent person, but I also don't like to go through tunnels when I travel. I'm claustrophobic.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Mean, Tunnels

  Source: cinema.com

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• Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

  Twyla Tharp

  Discipline, Luck, Talent

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• Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Thinking, Discipline, Achieve

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• Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.

  M. Scott Peck

  Children, Discipline, Giving

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• The popular masses are like water, and the army is like a fish. How then can it be said that when there is water, a fish will have difficulty in preserving its existence? An army which fails to maintain good discipline gets into opposition with the popular masses, and thus by its own action dries up the water.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Army, Discipline

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• Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness.....Rather than persecuting yourself or feeling that something terribly wrong is happening, right there in the moment of sadness and longing, could you relax and touch the limitless space of the human heart?

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Cheating, Loneliness

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• The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.

  Benjamin Spock

  Growing Up, Discipline, Return

  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition”, p.679, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not a good shot. Few of us are. To make up for this I hold my fire until I have a shot of less than 20 degrees deflection and until I'm within 300 yards. Good discipline on this score can make up for a great deal.

  John C. Meyer

  Fire, Discipline, Yards

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• When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.

  Michael Gove

  Teacher, Government, Discipline

  "Why should any teacher ever vote Tory?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2010.

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• Hunger is good discipline.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Discipline, Hunger

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• I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter.

  William Albert Allard

  Thinking, Discipline, Lenses

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• It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Discipline, Sake, Fruit

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2025, Manonmani Publishers

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• Limitation is a good discipline because it discourages inappropriate generalization, which distracts attention from the profound, particular complexity that characterizes anything at all.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Discipline, Profound, Attention

  "One of Obama’s Favorite Writers Redefines Spirituality". Interview with Gregory Barber, www.motherjones.com. October 25, 2015.

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