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“We must teach our children that the preservation of liberty, and of an order of society conducive to human dignity, requires that a free people retain the moral and material means to discipline its own government, should the temptation to tyranny take root.”

People Should Humans Mean Children Government Order Liberty Moral Teach Materials Discipline Dignity Roots Our Children Tyranny Temptation Preservation Human Dignity

Author:Alan Keyes

“Our goal as a parent is to give life to our children's learning--to instruct, to teach, to help them develop self-discipline--an ordering of the self from the inside, not imposition from the outside. Any technique that does not give life to a child's learning and leave a child's dignity intact cannot be called discipline--it is punishment, no matter what language it is clothed in.”

Giving Children Doe Self Matter Helping Language Parent Goal Teach Discipline Dignity Our Children No Matter What Technique Punishment Self Discipline Imposition

Author:Barbara Coloroso

“Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.”

Ifs Giving Children Real Boys Greater Teacher Discipline Advantage Female Dignity Males Mood Superiors Command Contact Ethical Uniformity Physical Strength

Author:G. Stanley Hall

“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”

Source: Insecurity of Freedom

“Honesty comes only with sound health, physically and psychologically, and an honest mind cannot be separated from the most genuine acknowledgment of expression. It should be recognized that pure perfection is unobtainable. Therefore, the realization that one's irrevocable faults and deficiencies must be faced guides us toward the first step of learning. We must each accept any situation as it actually is, with dignity. In that fine balance of acceptance of self and the mission to better oneself, compassion, humility, and discipline are nurtured.”

“We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.”

“It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointless and monstrous, as one feels about insanity, because there’s no sense to it, no dignity, nothing but pain--and wasted pain...why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage.”

World Want Needs Feels Kind Done Wanted Pain Evil Easy Sin Teach Courage Discipline Dignity Hardest Dirty Insanity Forgiven Hardest Thing Pointless Monstrous

Book:The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”

“In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.”

“Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.”

Doe Heaven Discipline Labor Dignity Rewards Floats Diligence Reserved

Book:The Life@work Book

Source: The Life@work Book

“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.”

Source: Insecurity of Freedom