Discipline Quote by K.J. Bishop

“Yet she was no bureaucrat; her practice was as various and elastic as her principles were constant; there was the method and even the…

— Parents' National Education Union

“But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and what she…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“But she could not breathe long on the heights; there had been nothing in her training to develop any continuity of moral strength: what…

— Edith Wharton

“She’d discovered the beginnings of her adult person, her preference for lucidity, prudence, responsibility, and restraint. Tranquility could be eked from boredom, results from…

— V.S. Kemanis

“What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living…

— Mohsin Hamid

“The intensity of her religious disposition, the coercion it exercised over her life, was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent, theoretic, and…

— George Eliot

“Discipline was necessary, but unquestioning obedience was a limiting thing, not a growing one.”

— R.A. Salvatore

“It was a compound of self-reliance, hard knocks, heart hunger, unceasing work, and generosity. There was no form of suffering with which the girl…

— Gene Stratton Porter

“and she had altogether the air of a woman clipped and pruned by severe discipline, an under–brightness shining through from the depths which that…

— Thomas Hardy

“And there rose in her an unmastering desire to overcome her; to unmask her. If she could have felled her it would have eased…

— Virginia Woolf

“She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.”

— Charles Williams

“She had been forced by the rules her maker had imposed on her to sacrifice herself for the human. It wasn’t that she wouldn’t…

— wildbow