Discipline quotes and words of wisdom

"A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind."
Edmund Spenser


"Discipline is remembering what you want."
David Campbell


"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments."
Jim Rohn


"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


"Disciplined inaction."
Robert Hall


"Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to,everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil,can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."
Henry Miller


"Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality."
Neal A. Maxwell


"No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca


"Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that"s real power."
Clint Eastwood


"Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work."
Peter Marshall


"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."
Thomas Jefferson


"The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him."
Rachel Louise Carson


Interesting Quotes

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.Havelock Ellis - English sexual psychologist (1859 - 1939)

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.Ernest Hemingway - US author & journalist (1899 - 1961)