- Through discipline comes freedom. Aristotle
- Freedom is self-determination. Baruch Spinoza
- All freedom comes from discipline. Anne Lamott
- Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Dave Brubeck
- Creativity needs discipline and freedom. David Ogilvy
- Discipline must come through liberty. Maria Montessori
- Discipline can feel wildly liberating. Danielle LaPorte
- No man is free who is not master of himself. Epictetus
- Discipline must come through liberty. Maria Montessori
- It takes discipline to be a free spirit. Gabrielle Roth
- No one is free who does not lord over himself. Claudius
- Behind real freedom, there lies discipline. Erwin McManus
- Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit? Gabrielle
- To be free is to be the master of ourselves. Matthieu Ricard
- Without discipline, there can be no freedom. Nadia Boulanger
- Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit? Gabrielle Roth
- To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. Virginia Woolf
- Discipline gives you the freedom to be creative. Denise Morrison
- It’s easy to be disciplined when you have no freedoms. Dick Couch
- Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined. Gary Snyder
- Freedom is taking control of the rudder of your life. Yukito Kishiro
- Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline. Erica Jong
- Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline. Erica Jong
- The truly free person in society is a disciplined person. Dean Smith
- Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. Wayne Thiebaud
- Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted . Tariq Ramadan
- Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline? Yehudi Menuhin
- True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline. Mortimer Adler
- We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are. Mahmoud Darwish
- Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves. Al-Ghazali
- I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom. Anne Lamott
- In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom. Paramahansa Yogananda
- As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
- A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline. Saint Augustine
- The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man’s slavery. Paramahansa Yogananda
- Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most. Abraham Lincoln
- Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos. Cullen Hightower
- Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation. Campbell Morgan
- Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline. Maria Montessori
- I think there’s some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom. Alan Rickman
- Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don’t use it. Cullen Hightower
- Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. Frank Herbert
- Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. Epictetus
- Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others Georges Clemenceau
- Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom. Jeanette Winterson
- Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly. Julie Andrews
- It is a paradoxical statement, but it takes incredible personal discipline to play with great freedom. Dick Bennett
- It’s in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there. Alan Keyes
- We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline. Cesar Chavez
- Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations. Wayne Thiebaud
- Freedom and victory belong to those who remain true and strong despite temptation to be dishonest and weak. Brendon Burchard
- Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you’d sink into chaos. Paulo Coelho
- Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit. Richard J. Foster
- Freedom or prison–what’s the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought – that is, with discipline. Elisabeth Elliot
- The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline. Matthew Kelly
- The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. Bernard Baruch
- Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another. Yahya Jammeh
- When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that’s when we experience true freedom and emotional health. David J. Lieberman
- We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. Jim Rohn
- But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace. Chinmayananda Saraswati
- Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others. Alistair Cooke
- If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses . . . only through discipline may a man learn to be free. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty. Will Durant
- When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes…By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the meaning of discipline and its reward: freedom and power. May Sarton
- Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it. Rajneesh
- But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn’t freedom. It’s not control that’s lacking when one feels ‘free’, but the objectionable control of force. F. Skinner
- 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 question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good. Henry David Thoreau
- If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It’s much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules. Renzo Piano
- My father taught me that only through self-discipline can you achieve freedom. Pour water in a cup and you can drink; without the cup, the water would splash all over. The cup is discipline. Ricardo Montalban
- A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right. Alan Keyes
- A healthy view of discipline keeps us on track in areas of our life where we’ve determined to make a change. Discipline is a practice of self-love, self- respect, and surrender that results in freedom. Michael Bernard Beckwith
- Conquer all that is base in you. Endeavor to attain all that is worthy and noble. Make the lower nature the servant of the higher through discipline, Tapas, self-restraint and meditation. This is the beginning of your freedom. Sivananda
- If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the other kinds of struggles, as well as the military, then the peril to freedom will continue to rise. John F. Kennedy
- Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. Maria Montessori
- The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. David Foster Wallace
- When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it. Zig Ziglar
- The freedom of discipline means that you agree to free yourself from the limitation of play acting the roles assigned to you by society, family, religion, and education and accept the part that has been written for you since the beginning of time: being your Self. Michael Bernard Beckwith
- All true discipline is self-discipline. And self-discipline is never against freedom—in fact, it is the ladder to freedom. Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it. Rajneesh
- There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect. Both are supplementary to each other and must be regarded as intimately connected. Discipline and freedom are thus to be seen as elements of equal weight, each partaking of the other. Armin Hofmann
- Discipline, as understood by a warrior, is creative, open, and produces freedom. It is the ability to face the unknown, transforming the feeling of knowing into reverent astonishment; of considering things that exceed the scope of our habits, and daring to face the only war that is worthwhile: The battle for awareness. Carlos Castaneda
- Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear-and doubt. Self- discipline allows a pitcher to feel his individuality, his inner strength, his talent. He is master of, rather than a slave to, his thoughts and emotions. A. Dorfman
- For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free man (all who try that have proved tiresome), but a technique: I hoped to discover the hinge where our will meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining, our nature. Marguerite Yourcenar
- From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy’s will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame. Henry Adams
- The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing. David Foster
- The gift of self-discipline is that it has the power to take you beyond the reasoning of temporary emotion to freedom. Think of how empowered you’ve felt on occasions when you haven’t given in to the ‘I don’t feel like it’ syndrome and honored your commitment to yourself. What does not feeling like it have to do with it? The combination of love for something with the willingness to do what it takes to practice it—discipline—results in freedom. Michael Beckwith
- So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. A free discipline controls the individual by appealing to his reason and conscience, and therefore to his self-respect; while an unfree control works upon some lower phase of the mind, and so tends to degrade him. It is freedom to be disciplined in as rational a manner as you are fit for. Charles Horton Cooley
- Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice. Walter Lippmann
- To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is not truly ours. To be organized and efficient, to live wisely, we must daily delay gratification and keep an eye on the future; yet to live joyously we must also possess the capacity, when it is not destructive, to live in the present and act spontaneously. In other words, discipline itself must be disciplined. The type of discipline required to discipline discipline is what I call balancing. M. Scott Peck
