#Discipline

"If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist."

"Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law."

"I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself."

"God tells me that I need to provide for my family, discipline and teach my children, and love my wife as Christ loves the church. If I don't do that, I'm being unfaithful and sinful."

"As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly."

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."

"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day."

"Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality."

"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."

"Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths."

"We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause."

"Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them."

"A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering."

"I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening."

"My diabetes is such a central part of my life... it did teach me discipline... it also taught me about moderation... I've trained myself to be super-vigilant... because I feel better when I am in control."

"Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace."

"Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to oneself."

"Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a disciplined or undisciplined state of mind. It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching."

"Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference."

"The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline."