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Discipline is when we limit ourselves, put borders around ourselves.
Defiance through compliance.
It is not enough that you can form nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You must also know when to deviate from them, and where lies the exception.
Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
Every community classifies, coerces, and restricts its members in some fashion; the particulars vary, but compliance with social forms is an inescapable fact of human existence. The exaggerated requirements
Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.
How to know, oh how to know! All is relative ease and facility in orthodoxy, yet how can it be denied that good is in itself undeniable? Absolutes are the most uncertain of all formulations, while the uncertainties are the most real ...
You are so stubborn."
"I am? I? Woman who insists everything be her way? You must wear hard white shoes. You must remove your weapons. You must travel in a car. You must not kiss me even though I wrap my legs around you when you do. Must must must. I weary of that word.
Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.
Without discipline, there can be no freedom.
Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.
Tightness gets in the way of everything, except tightness.
It's hard to be strict with a man who loses money so pleasantly.
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
I came from a very strict background.
That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.
The one thing I am very strict about is that I don't like spending a lot of money on movies because the more money you spend, I think the worse that they get.
There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.
Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.
Discipline is a demand of life.
What I impose, I must accept.
We permit Limitations to Limit us, instead of Limiting our Limitations.-RVM
The trouble is ... that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.
Strong words are required for weak principles.
For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.
Style is based on limitations.
Complete freedom is as much curse as boon; freedom within strict and well-defined confines is, to me, ideal.
Some boundaries are sacred.
Limitations only go so far.
To have preferences, but not exclusions.
I often want things to make definite statements. If I order onions sliced thinly on my hamburger, I don't want them to come out sort of medium. But that doesn't mean it's a reasonable desire, in all things.
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.
Onerous moral strictures weed out the uncommitted and guarantee a minimum level of solidarity and trust within the group.
Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
Rules must be established and enforced, and, as numbers are increased in prisons, the necessity for vigilance increases. These rules, let it be understood, may be kindly while firmly enforced. I would never suffer any exhibition of ill-temper or an arbitrary exercise of authority.
Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to devise clever, defiant ways to breach them.
Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.
Nothing is such an enemy to accuracy of judgment as a coarse discrimination; a want of such classification and distribution as the subject admits of.
Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.
All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.
We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.
I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that i finally obey.
High standards generally
about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and much else
far from being snobbish, are required to maintain decency in life.
We say we're stubborn on vision and flexible on details.
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
sake of exactness
There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
Using no way as way. Having no limitation as your only limitation.
Strict Father morality requires that there are natural, strict, uniform, unchanging standards of behavior that must be followed if society is to function. Another
The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves
You have to make the rules, not follow them
Gentle to others, to himself severe.
A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.
Fidelity
a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch.
Unbendingness can also be monomania, it can ca be tyranny, and also it can be brittle, whereas what is flexible can also be humane, and strong enough to last.
The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a certain point, primitive will or desire cannot be curbed.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
A need for enforcement implies the possibility of behavior that violates the rules of the game. The point is that if there were no possibility of violation, then you wouldn't need enforcement.
Set strictures on a person all you like, but the mind remains adulterous.
Discipline is required in all human endeavours.
Style is the outcome of constraint.
Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege.
Not seek for exactness in all matters alike, but in each according to the subject-matter, and so far as properly belongs to the system.
Never accept limitations.
Discipline means protection from one's own wanton interest.
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.
Art chooses its constraints.
My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.
Funishment - not truly discipline.
Discipline is needed in our pursuit.
The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.
Forbid Us Something and That Thing we Desire
We should bear the intelligence and taste of the architect or the gardener in how we shape the becoming of our self. Too much precision ("stringency") is simply misplaced, a formalism inappropriate to the kind of matter we have to deal with (and to be).
What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.
We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.
Obligations may be universal or particular.
Limits are possibilities ... Formal restrictions, contrary to what you might think, free you up by allowing you to concentrate on purer ideas ... You can be crippled by too many choices, especially if you don't know what your goals are.
What you cannot enforce, do not command!
We hear many persuasive voices demanding freedom from restrictions, particularly from moral restraints. However, we learn from the history of the earth that any successful society has had boundaries.
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
A person who holds strong convictions might appear inflexible, impolite, or exceptionally obtuse, when they are merely direct.
Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.
This incessant creation of restrictive laws and regulations,surrounding the pettiest actions of existence with the most complicated formalities, inevitably has for its result the confining within narrower and narrower limits of the sphere in which the citizen may move freely.
Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
That which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of restriction, but they should not tolerate the oppression of individuals of a special race.
I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.
Better no rule than cruel rule.
Don't be permissible. Be unstoppable.
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
Constraints inspire us in how we approach the press, how we approach business relationships, how we do everything.
What arises from discretion must be honoured.
How can a man live without a standard?
Absolutes are Coercion.
Change is absolute.