Discipline Quotes

“There is only one sort of discipline: perfect discipline.”

“Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence.”

“I know it's a cliché and people might not like that, but if you get ahead of yourself then you lose focus.”

“I know I'm a good professional. I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances.”

“My preparation is about precision. It is a science.”

“How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?”

“By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control, the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm.”

“Well-makers lead the water; fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood; wise people fashion themselves.”

"The surest test of discipline is its absence."

Clara Barton