Quotes about Discipline
Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.
— Marcus Aurelius
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
— Marcus Aurelius
The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.
— Margaret Mead
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
— St. Jerome
There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.
— Henry David Thoreau
Fasting of the body is food for the soul.
— St. John Chrysostom
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
— Samuel Johnson
It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.
— St. John Chrysostom
And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.
— Dorothy Sayers
We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.
— Epictetus
Obedience is the path to freedom.
— James Faust