Best 2007 quotes in «discipline quotes» category

The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered.

The popular masses are like water, and the army is like a fish. How then can it be said that when there is water, a fish will have difficulty in preserving its existence? An army which fails to maintain good discipline gets into opposition with the popular masses, and thus by its own action dries up the water.

The power of God tenderizes and changes us, not spiritual disciplines. Spiritual disciplines only position us to receive.

The price that must be paid for mastery is discipline. No one achieves lasting success without it. So from the moment you awake each day, devote yourself to the perfection of whatever you pursue. Do this and you will achieve self-mastery. Achieve self-mastery and you will have the makings of a great leader... Discipline is all about cultivating powerful habits that become part of your lifestyle.

The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don't know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they don't, but those things are easy enough to learn - but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

The profile of a wealthy person is this hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline.

The PS3 will instill discipline in our children and adults alike. Everyone will know discipline.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.

The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

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.

there are camels which have the quality which in humans is called the revolutionary spirit, and the caravan leader fears to keep one of these in his ranks, because its instinct is always toward revolt against authority. One such camel will sometimes break up the discipline of a whole train, for, owing to the mass mentality of the herd, even peaceful beasts are suddenly infected with the spirit of revolt and in a few minutes the whole caravan is in utter disorder.

There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics, and the natural sciences.

There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline...you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

There are many who say they want to be victorious Christians, but few are willing to endure the discipline necessary to make one a good solider of Jesus Christ. There is a prize to possess, but before we possess it there is a price to be paid, and few will pay it.

There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.

There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.

There are weaknesses that you have to understand and it takes a lot of discipline for the players to be able to play it effectively and have confidence in what they're doing.

There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right.

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

The reason we need to have a gold and silver based currency is to bring discipline to the financial system so the government can't go out and do all sorts of bad things.

There can be no true discipline without love...only compliance.

There can, therefore, be no doubt that Presbyterians do carry out the principle that Church power vests in the Church itself, and that the people have a right to a substantive part in its discipline and government.

The references you do not verify are the good ones.

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate men are sustained by the philosopher, the historian, the political analyst, the economist, the scientist, the poet, the artisan and the musician.

There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

There is a discipline, a spiritual code that you should adhere to, that you do not hurt anyone in any way shape or form either mentally or physically.

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

There is a tremendous problem in modern culture. We have become used to everything coming to us with tremendous speed and ease. It is a culture where discipline and patience is almost impossible to develop.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

There is no single truth, but each of the scholarly disciplines has methods which lead one ever closer to the truth.

There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless 'law' is equated with justice and 'order' with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done.

There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline.

There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

There is nothing like having to change your physical form to put you in contact with every weak part of yourself, to train yourself in discipline. Put somebody on a treadmill and I'll tell you how good they are at any other thing they do in life.

There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

There is only one kind of discipline, and that is the perfect discipline. As a leader, you must enforce and maintain that discipline; otherwise, you will fail at your job.

There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.