Discipline Quotes And Sayings

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“No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.”
– Seneca

“The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.”
– Sir Alexander Paterson

“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

“The more disciplined you become, the easier life gets.”
– Steve Pavlina

“Discipline is an index to doctrine.”
– Tertullian

“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
– Thomas Á Kempis

“I think the guys who are really controlling their emotions … are going to win.”
– Tiger Woods

“Sure I am a religious man who is also passionate about conserving the environment. But I am also a CEO, with all the bad habits and attitudes that are natural to the species. . . . I am still naturally self-interested, overconfident, full of pride, and eager to control a meeting as any CEO in America. Every day, I struggle with my ego.”
– Tom Chappell

“The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.”
– Tryon Edwards

“By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work 12 hours a day.”
– Unknown

“Discipline is learning what to do, when to do it and in what manner it should be done. For the Armed Forces, discipline is the standard of personal deportment, work requirement, courtesy, appearance and ethical conduct that will enable all to perform the mission with optimum efficiency.”
– Unknown

“Discipline is like spinach. We may not care for it ourselves but feel sure it would be good for everybody else.”
– Unknown

“It’s not the work that’s hard, it’s the discipline.”
– Unknown

“Rule your mind or it will rule you.”
– Unknown

“Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind-you could call it character in action.”
– Vince Lombardi

“The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.”
– Vince Lombardi

“If we don’t discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.”  
– William Feather

“Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.”
– William Feather

“If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.”
– William Feather 

“To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.”
– William Glasser

“Let’s not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can’t have high standards without good discipline.”
– William Hague 

“I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul’s good to do each day two things they disliked. . . . It is a precept I have followed scrupulously: for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.” 
– William Somerset Maugham 

“Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.”
– Winston Churchill

“Let me . . . ; remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.”
– Woodrow Wilson

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