80 Undisciplined Quotes

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The surest test of discipline is its absence. - Clara Barton

The surest test of discipline is its absence. — Clara Barton

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us. — William Feather

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us. — William Feather

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. — Richard P. Feynman

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp. - R. Lee Ermey

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp. — R. Lee Ermey

It takes discipline to be a free spirit. — Gabrielle Roth

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure. — Jim Rohn

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period. - Lou Holtz

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period. — Lou Holtz

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. - Jim Rohn

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. — Jim Rohn

Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences. — Daniel J. Siegel

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. — Bertrand Russell

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline. — Mortimer Adler

I like the idea of craziness with discipline. — Sayings

Short Undisciplined Quotes

  • You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. — George S. Patton
  • More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm. — Buddha
  • The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions — Stephen Covey
  • A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering. — Dalai Lama
  • Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men. — Alfred Jarry
  • The undisciplined man doesn't wrong himself alone- he sets fire to the whole world. — Rumi
  • Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous. — Sun Tzu
  • There isn't a scientific community. It is a culture. It is a very undisciplined organization. — Isidor Isaac Rabi
  • Perpetual emotion is the past time of the undisciplined mind. — Ervin Seale
  • Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God? — Ann Voskamp

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Dealing With Stupidity Quotes

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them. — Ayn Rand

It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that modernist Catholics are making today in reverse. They think you can love heretics by loving heresies. — Peter Kreeft

It is much easier for good to deal with evil than it is for good to deal with stupidity. — Unknown

I sighed. I hated the maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with it is to smile and act stupid. That way, no one gets confused. — Kim Harrison

People, like large groups of people are stupid. Individuals are smart and can deal with things and can make things last and work, but when people get together in big crowds they're stupid. They turn into sheep, then you have major situations. — Brandon Boyd

I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said that he was portentous, sincere, honest and rather stupid. — Malcolm Muggeridge

Meaning what? We're going to pretend nothing's going on? That's stupid. The only way to deal with any of this is to get it out in the open." Have you been watching Oprah again? — James Patterson

The economy is changing everything. And men need to deal with that. Our response to it has been rage, stupidity and conscious avoidance of dealing with what the reality of being a man might be outside of empty concepts from ancient history. — Stephen Marche

I just have to deal with it [injuries] if and when problems happen. It's obviously a concern and I've been very careful with my training, making sure I warm up and warm down before everything and not pushing myself too stupidly. — Greg James

It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality. — Matt Taibbi

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More Undisciplined Quotes

I earned my stripes as a Marine, and the Corps gets full credit for straightening me out. At 17, I was young, I was unhappy and most of all, I was undisciplined. The Marine Corps was the right service in the right place at the right time. — Art Buchwald

When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love. — Barry Long

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean. — Will Durant

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period. — Ted Nugent

Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us. — Mother Angelica

We hold our tongues in check because if they are undisciplined they empty the soul of the strength of heavenly grace, and weaken its healthful vigour. — Peter Damian

I look at people's lives and you see what's not working in their lives and it usually comes from an undisciplined mind. — Tony Robbins

To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit — Bjarne Stroustrup

To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is. — George Washington

A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character. — Norman Mailer

The only competition you will have is the competition between your disciplined and undisciplined mind. — James Arthur Ray

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind. — Buddha

Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is a slave to his own weaknesses. — Alan Valentine

The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses. — Mahatma Gandhi

Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind. — Andrew Weil

The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land. — Stockwell Day

Men are seldom born brave but they acquire courage through training and discipline - a handful of men inured to war proceed to certain victory; while on the contrary numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter. — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome. — Carroll O'Connor

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths. — Fulton J. Sheen

Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined. — Ed O'Neill

English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment. — Willard Gaylin

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have you seen a few policemen handle a crowd? — George S. Patton

Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen. — Frank Luntz

A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment. — Peter Blair Henry

Check the records; there has never been an undisciplined person who was a champion. Regardless of the field of endeavor, you'll find this to be true. — Zig Ziglar

It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track. — Robert Rauschenberg

And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such. — Andrew Wyeth

You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane. — Bill Bryson

It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching. — Dalai Lama

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings. — Felix Frankfurter

Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry with the world, bureaucratic, excessively rational, or whatever else, he/she will not pass through the classroom without leaving his or her mark on the students. — Paulo Freire

All too many churchmen view the undisciplined & amoral products of statist education as evidences of the failure of these schools. On the contrary, they are evidences of their success. — R.J. Rushdoony

Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble. — Catherynne M. Valente

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person. — Meryl Streep

No more harmful nonsense exists than [the] common supposition that deepest insight into great questions about the meaning of life or the structure of reality emerges most readily when a free, undisciplined, and uncluttered (read, rather, ignorant and uneducated) mind soars above mere earthly knowledge and concern. — Stephen Jay Gould

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl. My mind swings wildly through time, touching on dozens of ideas a minute, unharnessed and undisciplined. You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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