Discipline Quotes

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency.

It was an observation founded in undoubted facts, that the prosperity of nations had been in proportion to the discipline of their forces by sea and land. . . Discipline, discipline, had become my constant topic of discourse and even declamation in and out of Congress, and especially in the board of war. I saw […]

Obedience is the only thing wanting now for our salvation. Obedience to the laws in the States, and obedience to officers in the army.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He’s good, nobody can touch Him.

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.