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A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.

Discipline is not a nasty word.

Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

Discipline is doing what you really don't want to do so you can do what you really want to do.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

Discipline is creating the situation.

Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It requires you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

Discipline is remembering what you want.