"Discipline" Quotes . Top 28 Short Quotes About "Discipline"

"All change begins with a DECISION. Once the decision is made, DISCIPLINE becomes the bridge between desire and accomplishment."

--- A. R. Bernard

#Made #Discipline #Accomplishment

"Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between sensibility and self-discipline, simplicity and sophistication of style that is his particular province... Mozart tapped once again the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breath-taking rightness that has never since been duplicated."

--- Aaron Copland

#Composer #Sensibility #Reasonable

"Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal."

--- Aberjhani

#Passion #Achieve #Discipline

"Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to it without compromise or dilution."

--- Aberjhani

#Mean #Creative #Love

"When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary."

--- Aberjhani

#Awareness #Entrances #May

"When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Heirlooms #Ignored #Compassion

"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Military Discipline #Self Power #Personal Dignity

"Self-respect is the root of discipline"

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Self Power #Discipline #Self

"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Military Discipline #Respectful #Personal Dignity

"Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control."

--- Abraham Kaplan

#Social #Agency #Discipline

"Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Discipline #Health #Want

"There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad but true that physics has irretrievably fallen apart from a cohesive to a fragmented discipline. ... It was not that long ago that people were complaining about two cultures. If we only had it that good. today."

--- Abraham Pais

#People #Soul #Deluge

"You are truly your own hero in running. It is up to you to have the responsibility and self-discipline to get the job done."

--- Adam Goucher

#Discipline #Done #Hero

"My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack."

--- Adam Pally

#Thinking #Singles #Mitzvah

"The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence."

--- Adam Smith

#Workmen #Customers #Economics

"The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave toward him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability."

--- Adam Smith

#College #Behave #Colleges And Universities

"Without true celebration discipline is obnoxious."

--- Adi Da

#Obnoxious #Discipline #Celebration

"INITIATIVE, AGGRESSION, AIR DISCIPLINE, and TEAM WORK are words that MEAN something in Air Fighting."

--- Adolph Malan

#Mean #Fighting #Aggression

"For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to my mind were the most aggressive, and managed to keep their form in spite of their questionable discipline. Out of the line they were undoubtedly difficult to handle, but once in it they loved a fight. They were a curious mixture of toughness and sentimentality."

--- Adrian Carton de Wiart

#Fighting #Lines #Gallantry

"Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'"

--- Adrian Rogers

#Duty #Ought #Discipline

"Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a form of concentration. Meditation and concentration are two different things. Concentration is a discipline; concentration is a way in which we are actually directing or guiding or controlling our experience. Meditation is letting go of control, letting go of guiding our experience in any way whatsoever. The foundation of True Meditation is that we are letting go of control."

--- Adyashanti

#Technique #Discipline #Way

"I'm pretty grounded in a lifestyle which disciplines me and gives me a sense of familiarity and comfort."

--- Aeriel Miranda

#Lifestyle #Comfort #Discipline

"Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality."

--- African Spir

#Action #Bears #Moral Education

"It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good honest trade. You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas, but you must submit them to the discipline of form."

--- Agatha Christie

#People #Thinking #Creative

"It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint."

--- Agnes Martin

#Discipline #Disappointment #Paint

"We should discipline ourselves to read the Word until it comes alive...until we can almost feel the breath of God."

--- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Feels #Discipline #Breaths

"God sees us perfect in His Son while He disciplines and chastens and purges us that we may be partakers of His holiness."

--- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#May #Holiness #Discipline

"The Christian gospel is a message of freedom through grace and we must stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. But what shall we do with our freedom? The Apostle Paul grieved that some of the believers of his day took advantage of their freedom and indulged the flesh in the name of Christian liberty. They threw off discipline, scorned obedience and made gods of their own bellies."

--- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Apostle Paul #Belly #Made

28 "Discipline" Quotes