Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
~ Julie Andrews

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
~ Aristotle

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

No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. [Proverbs 29:15]
~ Bible

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

Temperance is a bridle of gold.
~ Burton

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
~ Miguel De Cervantes

Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.
~ Marie Chapian

No one is free who does not lord over himself.
~ Claudius

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
~ Charles Horton Cooley

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
~ William J. Durant

Self-command is the main discipline.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
~ Epictetus

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
~ William Feather

Without discipline, there is no life at all.
~ Katharine Hepburn

Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.
~ Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
~ Abraham J. Heschel

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
~ Horace

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
~ Alfred Jarry