Definition of Discipline

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Discipline

The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.

Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.

Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.

Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.

Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.

The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.

The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.

Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.

A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.

To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.

To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill.

To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.

To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.

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Discipline Quotations

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
Zig Ziglar

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
Thomas Jefferson

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
Vince Lombardi

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
George Washington

Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.
Bill Gates

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Jim Rohn

Discipline Translations

discipline in Afrikaans is dissipline
discipline in Danish is disciplin
discipline in Dutch is discipline, tucht
discipline in Finnish is kuri
discipline in French is aguerris, aguerrissez, aguerrissent, discipline
discipline in German is disziplinieren, Benehmen, Disziplin, Wissenszweig
discipline in Italian is disciplina
discipline in Norwegian is disiplin, disiplinere
discipline in Portuguese is disciplina
discipline in Spanish is disciplina
discipline in Swedish is kunskapsgren, tukta, tukt, disciplin

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