1,141 Quotes About Discipline

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.

Discipline is given to restrain the excesses offreedom

Illegitimate freedom is only a different shade of bondage

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

They have a special confidence in Christ, plus thoughtfulness plus faithfulness plus humility: for there are no things, in all creation, more beautiful, more rare than the so very disciplined and free, joyful and principled daughters of God.

OLD YOUTHFUL [sneezing]. But sir, it’s not fair. Where’s the justice…BARTHOLO. Justice! Ignorant clods like you can go on and on about justice. But I’m your master and that means I’m always right!OLD YOUTHFUL [sneezing]. But if a thing is true…BARTHOLO. If something’s true! If I don’t want a thing to be true, it isn’t true by my say-so. If you let any Tom, Dick, or Harry be right, you’d soon see what’s to become of authority and discipline!

Peace requires a discipline more iron than war.- Easter, 1939

Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, "It is the trade entering his body." The art must enter the body, too.