Quote: No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Quote: Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing. Author: Marie Chapian
Quote: No one is free who does not lord over himself. Author: Claudius 10 BC-AD 54, Roman Emperor
Quote: 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. Author: Charles Horton Cooley 1864-1929, American Sociologist
Quote: Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. Author: William J. Durant 1885-1981, American Historian, Essayist
Quote: Self-command is the main discipline. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. Author: Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher
Quote: If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us. Author: William Feather 1888-18, American Writer, Businessman
Quote: Without discipline, there is no life at all. Author: Katharine Hepburn 1907-, American Actress, Writer
Quote: Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself. Author: Johann Gottfried Von Herder 1744-1803, German Critic and Poet
Quote: Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. Author: Abraham J. Heschel 1907-1972, Polish educator, Author
Quote: When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed. Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet
Quote: Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men. Author: Alfred Jarry 1873-1907, French Playwright, Author
Quote: He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory. Author: Jyrus
Quote: 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. Author: Henry Parry Liddon 1829-1890, British Theologian
Quote: There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself. Author: Louis XIV 1638-1715, King of France from 1643-1715
Quote: Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. Author: James Russell Lowell 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor
Quote: 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. Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: 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. Author: Maria Montessori 1870-1952, Italian Educator
Quote: There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work. Author: Robert De Niro 1943-, American Actor, Director
Quote: If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it. Author: William Penn 1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania
Quote: The only discipline that last is self discipline. Author: Bum Phillips American Football Coach
Quote: A colt is worth little if it does not break its halter. Author: Proverb
Quote: Who loves well, chastises well. Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin
Quote: He who lives without discipline dies without honor. Author: Icelandic Proverb Sayings of Icelandic Origin
Quote: To know how to dispense with things is to possess them. Author: Jean Francois Regnard 1655-1709, French Comic Dramatist
Quote: 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. Author: Bob Richards American Olympic Pole Vaulting Champion
Quote: Discipline is not a nasty word. Author: Pat Riley 1945, American Basketball Coach
Quote: 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. Author: Wilma Rudolph 1940-1994, American Track Athlete
Quote: Anybody who gets away with something will come back to get away with a little bit more. Author: Harold Schoenberg
Quote: If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once. Author: Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832, British Novelist, Poet
Quote: No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement. Author: Hannah Whitall Smith
Quote: Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. Author: Roy L. Smith American Clergyman
Quote: You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine. Author: Tertullian 160-240, Roman Christian Author and Polemicist
Quote: Better to be pruned to grow than cut up to burn. Author: John Trapp
Quote: Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. Author: Barbara Tuchman 1912-1989, American Historian
Quote: Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. Author: George Washington 1732-1799, First President of the USA
Quote: Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly. Author: Julie Andrews 1935-, British Singer, Actress
Quote: What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
Quote: If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside. Author: Critias of Athens
Quote: No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. [Proverbs 29:15] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: 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. Author: John S. Bonnell