Discipline Quotes And Sayings

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“It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people‘s lives.” 
– Clint Eastwood 

“If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.” 
– Critias Of Athen 

“Leaders who can stay optimistic and upbeat, even under intense pressure, radiate the positive feelings that create resonance. By staying in control of their feelings and impulses, they craft an environment of trust, comforts and fairness. And that self-management has a trickle down effect from the leader.”
– Daniel Goleman

“Discipline is remembering what you want.” 
– David Campbell 

“Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers. If you don’t understand that you work for your mislabeled ‘subordinates,’ then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.”
– Dee Hock

“You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.” 
– Dr. James G. Bilkey 

“The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.” 
– E.M. Gray 

“Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.”
– Edmund Burke

“Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.”
– Edwin P. Whipple

“Discipline is a necessity, as a regulator of society, so that those who break its rules may be taught the necessity of obeying them.”
– Engineer Lockhart

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
– Frank Herbert

“Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees or the stars; you have a right to be here.” 
– From Disiderata 

“The greatest influence of discipline is to repress the weaknesses which grow out of individuality.”
– G. Burnett

“Discipline is the process by which energy is directed along certain lines to the exclusion of others. Instead of being expended in many ways in unreflecting response to every stimulant applied, it is concentrated and made to focus itself upon a single point, or rather is confined within certain narrow limits. Discipline is often spoken of as acquired power. A more exact statement would seem to be that discipline is ability to make energy effective by confining it in a certain channel.”
– Geo P. Brown

“Nothing is more harmful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army superiority over another.”
– George Washington

“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.”
– George Washington 

“The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.”
– Gordon B. Hinkley

“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.

“Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.” 
– H. Ross Perot 

“Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear—and doubt. Self-discipline allows a pitcher to feel his individuality, his inner strength, his talent. He is master of, rather than a slave to, his thoughts and emotions.”
– H.A. Dorfman

“No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.”
– Harry Emerson Fosdick

“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.” 
– Harry Emerson Fosdick 

“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.”
– Harry S. Truman

“All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.”
– Hebrews 12:11

“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.”
– Herbert Spencer

“To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate.”  
– Howard W. Hunter

“He who lives without discipline dies without honor.” 
– Icelandic Proverb 

“Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.”
– Immanuel Kant

“There’s no merit in discipline under ideal circumstances. I’ll have it in the face of death, or it’s useless.”
– Isaac Asimov

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