Discipline Quotes

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you.  Never excuse yourself.  Never pity yourself.  Be a hard master to yourself--and be lenient to everybody else.  -Henry Ward Beecher

A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. -Spencer

If we don't discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.  -William Feather

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. -Penn

A man in old age is like a sword in a shop window. Men that look upon the perfect blade do not imagine the process by which it was completed. Man is a sword; daily life is the workshop; and God is the artificer; and those cares which beat upon the anvil, and file the edge, and eat in, acid-like, the inscription on the hilt--those are the very things that fashion the man. -H.W. Beecher

 

The discipline which corrects the baseness of worldly passions, fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes it with enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity, than all the provisions we can make of the goods of fortune. -Blair

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed.  No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined.  No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunnelled.  No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.  -Harry Emerson Fosdick

 

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