Best discipline & activity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield

“Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be necessary; and studying to behave right in respect of these is a discipline of the human heart, useful to others, and improving to itself. Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue.”

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes ...

“What sets Christian spiritual activity apart from all other religions is that they have knowledge of Christ as their goal; not moral perfection (although you will become more moral), not tranquility (although your life will be remarkably more peaceful). And because of the grace you have in Christ, the disciplines will do nothing to make you more accepted by the Father. You cannot be more accepted than you already are in Christ, since He has already done it all for you!”

Done Christian Spiritual Father Goal Christ Moral Grace Discipline Activity Perfection Accepted Peaceful Tranquility Moral Perfection

Book:So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There

Source: So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There

“Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.”

Wells Play Practice Discipline Activity Piano

Author:Dallas Willard

“One of the many ways of contesting level-zero, and one of the best, is to take photographs, an activity in which one should start becoming adept very early in life, teach it to children since it requires discipline, aesthetic education, a good eye and steady fingers.”

Way Should Children Eye Levels Teach Becoming Discipline Activity Fingers Photograph Zero Steady Aesthetic Adept Life Teaches

Book:Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much

Source: Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much

“The disciplines of prayer, silence, and contemplation as practiced by the monastics and mystics are precisely that - stopping the noise, slowing down, and becoming still so that God can break through all our activity and noise to speak to us. Prayer serves to put all parts of our lives in God's presence, reminding us how holy our humanity really is.”

Stills Humanity Speak Prayer Silence Break Our Lives Becoming Discipline Holy Activity Down And Noise Contemplation Stopping Slow Down Reminding Break Through Slowing God's Presence

Author:Jim Wallis

“The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity, as often happens in old-time discipline . . . A room in which all the children move about usefully, intelligently, and voluntarily, without committing any rough or rude act, would seem to me a classroom very well disciplined indeed.”

Wells Children Doe Seems Happens Moving Lying Evil Rooms Seeing Discipline Activity Tasks Rough Classroom Rude Educator Old Time

Book:The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in the Children's Houses with Additions and Revisions

Source: The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in the Children's Houses with Additions and Revisions

“The whole idea is that the combination of tight activity and slack activity allows me to be both productive and creative at the same time. In the four years that I am actually working in a proper job, I am earning money and I'm also writing with a lot of discipline on the side.”

Writing Years Ideas Whole Jobs Sides Creative Four Discipline Activity Combination Productive Four Years Earning Earning Money

Author:Karan Bajaj

“Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.”

Mind Habit Discipline Activity Desirable Willpower Compulsion Undesirable Habits Of Mind

Book:On Education

Source: On Education

“In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings, had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like an artist with no art form, she became dangerous.”

“Do you have agendas for your children that are more important than the children themselves? Lost in the shuffle of uniforms, practices, games, recitals, and performances can be the creative and joyful soul of your child. Watch and listen carefully. Do they have time to daydream? From their dreams will emerge the practices and activities that will make self-discipline as natural as breathing.”

“Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuit—for any season—sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to pry wisdom out of God's hands or to force needed insight about a decision. Fasting is not a tool for gaining discipline or developing piety (whatever that might be). Instead, fasting is the bulimic act of ridding ourselves of our fullness to attune our senses to the mysteries that swirl in and around us."—Dan B. Allender, PhD”

Source: To Be Told: Know Your Story, Shape Your Future

“If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.”

Ifs Art Passion Force Peace Magic Discipline Activity Skills Edges Persistence Realms

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens and vanishes, as it does towards the latter stages of the fire fight, and the crowd instinct possesses the soldier, then will he, if training has formed those necessary mental reflexes, surrender himself to the will of his leader; this is where leadership supplants discipline without destroying it.”

Ifs Doe Fighting Leader Fire Stage Discipline Activity Training Intelligent Aim Instinct Soldier Crowds Surrender Obedience Latter Destroying Literal Reflexes

Author:J. F. C. Fuller

“When you work at home, fellow alums, discipline is the supreme virtue. Suicidal self-loathing lurks behind every coffee break. Activities must be expertly scheduled, from shopping to showers to panic attacks.”

Self Home Behinds Break Virtue Discipline Activity Fellows Coffee Supreme Shopping Panic Showers Suicidal Loathing Self Loathing Panic Attacks Coffee Break

Book:Home Land: A Novel

Source: Home Land: A Novel

“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.”

Wish Discipline Activity Limits Latter Confined

Book:For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

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