Best discipline & moral Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right.”

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Author:Alan Keyes

“Although there is nothing so bad for conscience as trifling, there is nothing so good for conscience as trifles. Its certain discipline and development are related to the smallest things. Conscience, like gravitation, takes hold of atoms. Nothing is morally indifferent. Conscience must reign in manners as well as morals, in amusements as well as work. He only who is "faithful in that which is least" is dependable in all the world.”

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.”

Long Lasts Moral Effects Discipline Prove Clubs Compulsion

Book:A Montessori Mother

Source: A Montessori Mother

“If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.”

Ifs Lines Accepting Moral Particular Discipline Accepted Surrealism

Author:Andre Breton

“History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is what we make of it; its moral use. By writing history, we can widen readers' thinking and deepen their sympathies in every direction. Perhaps history should show us not how to control the world, but how to enlarge, deepen, and discipline ourselves.”

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Book:Heart Mountain

Source: Heart Mountain

“Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.”

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Author:African Spir

“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

“For Christians to be linked in association with ministries who do not preach the gospel of Christ is to incur moral guilt. A Union which can continue irrespective of whether its member churches belong to a common faith is not fulfilling any scriptural function. The preservation of a denominational association when it is powerless to discipline heretics cannot be justified on the grounds of the preservation of 'Christian unity'... It is error which breaks the unity of churches, and to remain in a denominational alignment which condones error is to support schism.”

“There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.”

“A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are desirable in education are themselves moral. Discipline, natural development, culture, social efficiency, are moral traits - marks of a person who is a worthy member of that society which it is the business of education to further.”

Persons Values Culture Social Natural Views Moral Development Discipline Members Mark Responsible Aim Worthy Traits Efficiency Desirable

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer to the town and the town to the country.... It energized punctuality, discipline, and attention; and proved a moral teacher by the influence of example.”

Country Attention Moral Teacher Influence Example Discipline England Towns Size Iron Magician Rail Punctuality

Author:Samuel Smiles

“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 is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience. It is the deliberate cultivation of inner order.”

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Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“In America, a metrical poem is likely to conjure up the idea of the sort of poet who wears ties and lunches at the faculty club. In Russia it suggests the moral force of an art practiced against the greatest personal odds, as a discipline, solitary and intense.”

Art Ideas America Force Moral Poet Discipline Clubs Russia Intense Ties Faculty Lunch Solitary Odds

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.”

Political Sound Religious Moral Youth Duty Discipline Maxims Early Life

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.”

Humans Soul Spiritual Law Moral Journey Discipline Liberation Planes Human Soul

Book:Sadhana

Source: Sadhana

“Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists. To know anything at all becomes a moral predicament. Aware that there is no such thing as a specialized effect, one becomes responsible for judgments as well as facts. Aware that as an agricultural scientist he had 'one great subject,' Sir Albert Howard could no longer ask, What can I do with what I know? without at the same time asking, How can I be responsible for what I know?”

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.”

“It needs more than ever to be stressed that the best and truest educators are parents under God. The greatest school is the family. In learning, no act of teaching in any school or university compares to the routine task of mothers in teaching a babe who speaks no language the mother tongue in so short a time. No other task in education is equal to this. The moral training of the children, the discipline of good habits, is an inheritance from the parents to the children which surpasses all other. The family is the first and basic school of man.”

“Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.”

Whole Problem Happiness Difficult Sound Simple Moral Acceptance Discipline Essence Oneself Outlook Simple Things Life Happiness Epitome Actual Life

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element of moral systems; it is a very important source of spiritual discipline and a celestial virtue of perfected people.”

Source: Toward Global Civilization Love Tolerance

“We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are separated from nature and life, the intellectual and moral discipline made use of to impose ready-made ideas upon them, beliefs which deprave and annihilate natural bent.”

“The core of a soldier is moral discipline. It is intertwined with the discipline of physical and mental achievement. It motivates doing on your own what is right without prodding. It is an inner critic that refuses to tolerate less than your best. Total discipline overcomes adversity and physical stamina draws on an inner strength that says "drive on".”

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Author:William G. Bainbridge

“WOMEN preserve the culture of this country with greater tenacity and faith. They keep men on the moral path and inspire them to follow spiritual discipline. Their hearts are tender and full of compassion for the hungry and the distressed. That is why in this land, women are adored and revered.”

Men Heart Country Spiritual Culture Compassion Moral Path Greater Land Inspire Discipline Hungry Preserves Tenacity Spiritual Disciplines

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“The relationship between officers and men should in no sense be that of superior and inferior, nor that of master and servant, but rather that of teacher and scholar. In fact, it should partake of the nature of the relationship between father and son, to the extent that officers, especially commanding officers, are responsible for the physical, mental, and moral welfare, as well as the discipline and military training of the young men under their command.”

“The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success.”

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Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.”

Men Wells Care Spirit Moral Sacrifice Creation Discipline Crisis Lays Depth Everyday Simplicity Everyday Life Moderation Seriousness Degradation Ecological Moral Crisis

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.”

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Book:The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty

Source: The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty

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