DISCIPLINE

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(754 votes)  What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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

Julie Andrews
1935-, British Singer, Actress

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(558 votes)  Self-command is the main discipline.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(531 votes)  If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.

Critias of Athens

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(498 votes)  Who loves well, chastises well.

French Proverb
Sayings of French Origin

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(490 votes)  No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(479 votes)  The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. [Proverbs 29:15]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(477 votes)  No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(461 votes)  A colt is worth little if it does not break its halter.

Proverb

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(460 votes)  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 Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(454 votes)  If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

William Feather
1888-18, American Writer, Businessman

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(446 votes)  He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

Icelandic Proverb
Sayings of Icelandic Origin

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(430 votes)  Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

George Washington
1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(418 votes)  Without discipline, there is no life at all.

Katharine Hepburn
1907-, American Actress, Writer

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(414 votes)  Discipline is not a nasty word.

Pat Riley
1945, American Basketball Coach

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(414 votes)  No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(409 votes)  Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

James Russell Lowell
1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor

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(409 votes)  One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

Bob Richards
American Olympic Pole Vaulting Champion

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(408 votes)  When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Horace
BC 65-8, Italian Poet

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(406 votes)  Temperance is a bridle of gold.

Burton

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(406 votes)  Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham J. Heschel
1907-1972, Polish educator, Author

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(402 votes)  Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

Epictetus
50-120, Stoic Philosopher

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(400 votes)  He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory.

Jyrus

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(399 votes)  Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.

Roy L. Smith
American Clergyman

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(398 votes)  There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

Robert De Niro
1943-, American Actor, Director

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(397 votes)  Anybody who gets away with something will come back to get away with a little bit more.

Harold Schoenberg

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(397 votes)  Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back.

W. K. Hope

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(395 votes)  Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.

Johann Gottfried Von Herder
1744-1803, German Critic and Poet

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(393 votes)  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
1864-1929, American Sociologist

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(390 votes)  If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

Sir Walter Scott
1771-1832, British Novelist, Poet

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(389 votes)  Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.

Marie Chapian

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(386 votes)  There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Louis XIV
1638-1715, King of France from 1643-1715

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(385 votes)  Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.

Hannah Whitall Smith

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(383 votes)  Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

Alfred Jarry
1873-1907, French Playwright, Author

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(383 votes)  The only discipline that last is self discipline.

Bum Phillips
American Football Coach

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(380 votes)  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
1870-1952, Italian Educator

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(379 votes)  Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

William J. Durant
1885-1981, American Historian, Essayist

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(379 votes)  It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

Wilma Rudolph
1940-1994, American Track Athlete

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(379 votes)  Better to be pruned to grow than cut up to burn.

John Trapp

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(379 votes)  No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.

John S. Bonnell

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(377 votes)  If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

William Penn
1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania

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(376 votes)  You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

Tertullian
160-240, Roman Christian Author and Polemicist

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(375 votes)  What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are. What we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

Henry Parry Liddon
1829-1890, British Theologian

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(370 votes)  To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.

Jean Francois Regnard
1655-1709, French Comic Dramatist

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(367 votes)  No one is free who does not lord over himself.

Claudius
10 BC-AD 54, Roman Emperor

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(365 votes)  Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

Barbara Tuchman
1912-1989, American Historian

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