Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance. [ Channing ]
Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Nature without discipline is of small force, and discipline without nature more feeble. [ John Lily ]
Parents deserve reproof when they refuse to benefit their children by severe discipline. [ Petronius Arbiter ]
A stern discipline pervades all Nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. [ Spenser ]
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. [ Seneca ]
Restraint of discipline, emulation, examples of virtue and of justice, form the education of the world. [ Burke ]
Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy, but a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement. [ Joubert ]
Discipline: doing what you have to do, and doing it as well as you possibly can, and doing it that way all the time. [ Bobby Knight ]
There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years - the language of the soul, told through the eye. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]
Man should be ever better than he seems; and shape his acts, and discipline his mind, to walk adorning earth, with hope of heaven. [ Sir Aubrey de Vere ]
'Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet. [ Massinger ]
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners; she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable. [ Luther ]
The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the conquering that gives a hero his title to renown. [ E. L. Magoon ]
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else. [ Ruskin ]
Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon. [ Hillard ]