Discipline proverbs

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◆ 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.

- Plato99

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

- Bill Ayers99

◆ Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

- Ann Landers99

◆ Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

- Thucydides99

◆ Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?

- Jane Nelsen99

◆ When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart

- Gordon B. Hinckley99

◆ Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and permits truth, virtue, and integrity to rule our minds instead.

- John MacArthur99

◆ 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.

- Dalai Lama XIV99

◆ football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

- Vince Lombardi99

◆ Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence ,Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm!!

- Pablo99

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

- Steven Pressfield99

◆ What you keep before your eyes will affect you.

- Joel Osteen99

◆ It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

- Edmund Burke99

◆ You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

- Marshall B. Rosenberg99

◆ True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.

- Charles Eisenstein99