“Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.”
“Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.”
“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.”
“Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.”
“If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.”
“Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”