quotations about discipline
To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.
WILLIAM GLASSER
Control Theory in the Classroom
Corrective discipline is like surgery--it corrects something that's gone wrong in the body so that more serious injury doesn't result.
MARK DEVER & PAUL ALEXANDER
The Deliberate Church
It is not crazy to think of discipline as a chariot. Without discipline we would drive ourselves crazy.
NOAH BENSHEA
Great Quotes to Inspire Great Teachers
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
SENECA
Discipline is teaching a child the way he should go. Discipline, therefore, includes everything you do to help your child learn. Unfortunately, it's one of the most misunderstood words in the English language. Most people generally think of it as punishment or as something unpleasant. We need to understand that discipline is something you do for a child. Punishment is something you do to a child when discipline fails. Both Greek and Hebrew words denoting discipline include the meaning of chastening, correction, rebuke, upbringing, training, instruction, education, and reproof. The purpose of discipline is positive--to produce a whole person, free from the faults and handicaps that hinder maximum development.
ZIG ZIGLAR
Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World
I need some discipline tonight
Don't hold back
I've been very bad
Make me cry
(oh oh oh)
Daddy, make me cry
JANET JACKSON
"Discipline"
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
Sand Against the Wind
Children expect discipline. Even though discipline can be unpleasant, everyone who has experienced good discipline knows not only that he needed it, but also appreciates, and loves those who had the courage to give it to him! To attempt to raise a child without discipline is like trying to build a complex building without a blueprint, or like leaving the rebar out of concrete when it is poured, or deciding not to install the steel beams and girders into a skyscraper--you steal its spine--you create a disaster.
ZESTER HATFIELD
Daddy's Little Girl & Mommy's Little Boy
Fair and reasonable discipline is like a fence that provides protection and defines limits, demonstrating both care and concern.
LES CHRISTIE
When Church Kids Go Bad
Discipline is the process by which energy is directed along certain lines to the exclusion of others. Instead of being expended in many ways in unreflecting response to every stimulant applied, it is concentrated and made to focus itself upon a single point, or rather is confined within certain narrow limits. Discipline is often spoken of as acquired power. A more exact statement would seem to be that discipline is ability to make energy effective by confining it in a certain channel.
GEO P. BROWN
Illinois School Journal, Sep. 1886
Discipline is the defining fire by which talent becomes ability.
ROY SMITH
attributed, Words of Wisdom and Quotable Quotes
Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.
CHARLES F. STANLEY
How to Handle Adversity
Discipline in its highest notion is not punishment or self-punishment. It is rather something seminal to the self. It is our foundation. It is our architecture. It gives us structure. It allows us to steer our energies and pull our wagon.
NOAH BENSHEA
Great Quotes to Inspire Great Teachers
Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
Commentaries on Living
When discipline is sown, like a good seed, it yields a harvest of things that fulfill and satisfy us--things that make us happy and release peace and joy in our lives.
JOYCE MEYER
The Secret to True Happiness
Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules.
ALICE MILLER
For Your Own Good
Discipline must come through liberty. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
MARIA MONTESSORI
American Annals of the Deaf, 1914
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
TRYON EDWARDS
A Dictionary of Thoughts
Life without discipline is like a ship without a rudder.
RONIE MATHEW THOMAS
Primary Essays and Proverbs
Discipline is like spinach. We may not care for it ourselves but feel sure it would be good for everybody else.
ANONYMOUS