Discipline Quotes

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. (George Washington)
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. View quote
Jim Rohn
There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline. View quote
George S. Patton
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy. View quote
Claude Adrien Helvétius
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. View quote
Tryon Edwards
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. View quote
Frank Herbert
Error is discipline through which we advance. View quote
William Ellery Channing
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine. View quote
Tertullian
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. View quote
Washington Irving
We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries. (Edith Wharton)
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain. View quote
Enya
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. View quote
John Steinbeck
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent. View quote
Rahul Dravid
We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect. View quote
Hannes Alfvén
For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline. View quote
Pablo Picasso
It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained. View quote
Charles Dickens
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. View quote
Alan Perlis
We must all suffer from one of two pains the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. View quote
Jim Rohn
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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. View quote
Adam Smith
Submission to the experimental data is the golden rule that dominates any scientific discipline. View quote
Maurice Allais
The discipline, nonetheless, is exacting: everything that can be observed should be observed, even if it is only recalled as the bland background from which the intriguing bits pop out like Venus in the evening sky. The goal is always finding something new, hopefully unimagined and, better still, hitherto unimaginable. View quote
K. Barry Sharpless
One is led to conclude that economics as a scientific discipline is still somewhat hanging in the air. View quote
Tjalling Koopmans