25 Metaphors for discipline

That your discipline was the lightest ever known in a household, I need not tell you.

"Discipline, you know, is the very life of a man-of-war, and this must account for what now took place.

But though self-discipline of this kind is the result of long habit, it always works by a sort of external compulsion, which Nature never ceases to resist and sometimes unexpectedly overcomes.

The spiritual significance of social decorum,or, I might say, to borrow from the vocabulary of the "Philosophy of Clothes," the spiritual discipline of which etiquette and ceremony are mere outward garments,is out of all proportion to what their appearance warrants us in believing.

"Only a mother," she wrote, "knows the varied discipline of hopes and fears and joys and sorrows through which a mother passes to gloryfor this is the mother's pathway, and she rarely walks on a higher road or one that may so lead to perfection."

I could fill a dozen books the size of this with the solemn warning of such Pacifists as these against the danger of peace (which they tell you they are struggling to maintain), and how splendid and glorious a thing, how fine a discipline is war (which they tell you they are trying so hard to avoid).

The discipline here is no fiction; they do not play at soldiers; they all work their way up from the ranks, performing every duty of each rank, and the most rigid obedience is exacted.

Discipline and initiative have been the twin conquerors, and the ablest men in the Army, to use a homely phrase, have been out for both.

To these wild people the protracted discipline of military training is simply a purgatory, and for weeks before the recruiting officers are due, they dose themselves with powerful herbs and physics and fast, and nurse sores into being, until they are in a really deplorable condition.

In conscience and moral honesty and strict obedience he saw the only safe and trustworthy guidance in regard to the choice and formation of religious opinions; it was a principle on which all his philosophy was built, that "careful and individual moral discipline is the only possible basis on which Christian faith and practice can be reared."

And discipline is the essence of success.

The discipline of the Quakers was therefore a school for bringing them up as advocates for the abolition of this trade.

The defeat of the Romans at Carrhae by the Parthians was followed by a panic, against the effects of which not even the discipline of the legions was a preventive.

The discipline of a regiment is the only security for the individual.

Well, I happened to step in last Tuesday when he was here with your mamma, and I am sure they were talking about you, for he said, 'Discipline is discipline, and must be preserved.

An old Indian fighter, who, at the close of the last century, wrote, from experience, a good book on the subject, summed up the case very justly when he said: "I apprehend that the Indian discipline is as well calculated to answer the purpose in the woods of America as the British discipline is in Flanders; and British discipline in the woods is the way to have men slaughtered, with scarcely any chance of defending themselves.

The discipline would certainly be severeshe did not dream at the moment how severe!but this fine, consistent little Christian saw it plain; she accepted it, too, without any sighing of the martyr, though the courage she showed was of the martyr order.

We feel no regret at this circumstance, believing that the discipline which cuts us off from membership for an act so strictly in conformity with the will of God, and so sanctioned by His word as is the marriage of the righteous, must be anti-Christian, and I am thankful for an opportunity to testify against it.

The discipline observed on this march was a terrible forewarning to the people of the Netherlands of the influence of the general and the obedience of the troops.

And discipline, in time of war, isn't just a parade-ground matter.

Nature's discipline is not even a word and a blow, and the blow first; but the blow without the word.

And the discipline might be the making of him, prove the way to exorcise the devil.

Discipline and restraint are the cardinal principles of our conduct and I warn you against any sort of tyrannical social ostracism.

Giles says in his journal that they were "a perfectly armed and drilled force," though military discipline was a singular characteristic to find amongst the blacks of this barren region.

Seeing that discipline was the one thing needful, he commenced to enforce it with an iron hand.

25 Metaphors for  discipline