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Discipline |
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Quotations
 | It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 7 likes |
 | Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue. — David Lloyd George, 1863-1945, British Prime Minister [1916-1922] 5 likes |
 | Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild. — Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, German philosopher 4 likes |
 | It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy. — Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794, English historian 4 likes |
 | It is much safer to obey than to rule. — Thomas à Kempis, 1380-1471, German-Dutch monk & author 2 likes |
 | The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer 1 likes |
 | A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were. — Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer 1 likes |
 | In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey. — Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer 1 likes |
 | The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman 1 likes |
 | The uniformity and obedience of the American media, which any dictator would admire… — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist 1 likes |
 | The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands. — Ernest Renan, 1823-1892, French philosopher & historian 1 likes |
 | Αll children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist 1 likes |
 | You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 1 likes |
| I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 1 likes |
Bible Quotes
 | For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises everyone. — Epistles of Paul ‐ Hebrews 12:6 4 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | We are a nation of anarchists, very, very disciplined. — Altan, 1942-, Italian comics artist & satirist 4 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | It is appropriate to obey the law, the ruler and the wiser. Νόμω και άρχοντι και τω σοφοτέρω είκειν κόσμιον. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 4 likes |
 | Tell them in Lacedaimon, stranger That here, obedient to their word, we lie. Ω ξειν’ αγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ότι τήδε κείμεθα τοις κείνων ρήμασι πειθόμενοι. — Simonides of Ceos, 556-468 BC, Ancient poet & author of epigrams ( epitaph on a commemorative stone on top of the burial mound of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae) 3 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | The Von Trapp children don't play. They march. — from the film The Sound of Music (1965) 4 likes |
