Undisciplined Quotes

• Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Education

  Richard P. Feynman (2008). “Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman”, p.256, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Country, Children, Gun

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• A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Discipline, Mind

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.48, Penguin

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• The undisciplined man doesn't wrong himself alone- he sets fire to the whole world.

  Rumi

  Men, Fire, Discipline

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• 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

  Men, Self, Discipline

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• Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

  Alfred Jarry

  Real, Men, Discipline

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• You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.

  George S. Patton

  Discipline, Great Things, Small Things

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• More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.

  Gautama Buddha

  Attitude, Hate, Mind

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

  Barry Long

  Thinking, Mind, Robots

  "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

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• The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.”  “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a learning experience and less a punitive experience if appropriately dealt with.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Naughty, Discipline

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• The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

  Stephen Covey

  Freedom, Passion, Empowerment

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Past, Government, Engineering

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• The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

  Bum Phillips

  Life, Motivational, Volleyball

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only competition you will have is the competition between your disciplined and undisciplined mind.

  James Arthur Ray

  Inspirational, Competition, Mind

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Meditation And Yoga

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• Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Brother, Business, Physicians

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• You must ask, "What do we mean by great results?" Your goals don't have to be quantifiable, but they do have to be describable. Some leaders try to insist, "The only acceptable goals are measurable," but that's actually an undisciplined statement. Lots of goals-beauty, quality, life change, love-are worthy but not quantifiable. But you do have to be able to tell if you're making progress.

  James C. Collins

  Life Changing, Mean, Goal

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• 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

  Giving, Intellectual, Purpose

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• 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

  Buddhist, Thinking, Ideas

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• 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

  Government, Decision, Environment

  Peter Blair Henry (2013). “Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth”, p.10, Basic Books

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• 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

  Champion, Records, Fields

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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

  Law, Feelings, Reason

  "Felix Frankfurter Reminisces". Book by Harlan Buddington Phillips, January 1, 1960.

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• 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

  Communication, Thinking, Tanks

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• 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

  Couple, Cities, Islands

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.15, VNR AG

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• 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

  Reality, Ignorant, Mind

  "I Have Landed". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "No Science Without Fancy, No Art Without Facts", p. 48, May 14, 2002.

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