Discipline

(270 votes)   He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

Icelandic Proverbs
Sayings of Icelandic Origin

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(222 votes)   If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.

Critias of Athens

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(201 votes)   No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(177 votes)   No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(164 votes)   The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. [Proverbs 29:15]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(141 votes)   Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back.

W. K. Hope

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(138 votes)   Who loves well, chastises well.

French Proverbs
Sayings of French Origin

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(118 votes)   Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(118 votes)   Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

James Russell Lowell
1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor

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(116 votes)   Temperance is a bridle of gold.

Burton

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(112 votes)   A colt is worth little if it does not break its halter.

Proverbs

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(102 votes)   Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham J. Heschel
1907-1972, Polish educator, Author

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(97 votes)   To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.

Jean Francois Regnard
1655-1709, French Comic Dramatist

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(91 votes)   What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are. What we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

Henry Parry Liddon
1829-1890, British Theologian

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(90 votes)   No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.

John S. Bonnell

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