Quotes about Discipline
I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.
— Stephen Covey
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
— William Golding
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.
— Samuel Johnson
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
— Charles Dickens
The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.
— Susanna Wesley
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
— Billy Graham
There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting.
— Jim Rohn
If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.
— Charles Spurgeon
Wanting to win isn't enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.
— John Maxwell
We best learn patience by practicing it.
— Jim Elliot
In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.
— Thomas Merton