Discipline Quotes

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

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

All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.

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

My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

I love being in a show. I love the community aspect of it. I like the discipline of it, too.

I've always admired Cate Blanchett and the roles she chooses. I think she's got an incredible discipline in a way, with choosing roles that are going to help her grow and bring something interesting to the world.

If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

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

Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made.

Growth in any individual European country has to be the result of policies for growth pursued in that country consistent with budgetary discipline.

I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them.

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.