Quotes about Discipline
A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.
- Martin Luther
There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.
- Publilius Syrus
The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.
- Henry David Thoreau
I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
- Johannes Tauler
When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?
- John Calvin
Frugality includes all the other virtues.
- Cicero
I do one sit up a day. I get up in the morning, that's the first half. I lay down at night, that's the second half.
- Mark Lowry
Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.
- George Washington
The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.
- Thomas Jefferson
I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments.
- Muhammad Ali