M. Scott Peck Quotes About Discipline

Quotes about: Discipline

• Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

• An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.

  M. Scott Peck

  Giving Up, Shoes, Discipline

• Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Discipline, Vices

• Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.

  M. Scott Peck

  Discipline, Tools, Problem

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

• When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

  M. Scott Peck

  Children, Teaching, Discipline

  M. Scott Peck (2012). “The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth”, p.6, Random House

• 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

  Eye, Responsibility, Discipline

  "The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth".

• The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.

  M. Scott Peck

  Self, Discipline, Feelings

  M. Scott Peck (2012). “The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth”, p.12, Random House

• The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself- including things like using your time well. In this way, self-discipline is self-caring.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love You, Caring, Self

• Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call.

  M. Scott Peck

  Discipline, People, And Love

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

• With total discipline we can solve all problems.

  M. Scott Peck

  Discipline, Problem, Solve

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

• Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Believe, Mean

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

• Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.

  M. Scott Peck

  Children, Discipline, Giving

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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