Vera Lynn Quotes

I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

I know when I have kids, when I'm older, I'm going to encourage them to play sports because I think it teaches you a lot. It teaches you discipline, teamwork, and that there's really no 'I' in team.

We're all about trying to teach the kids life through basketball.

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

I feel that a period of service to the nation would be good for all of us, though I hope it will not be a purely military period. I have a great appreciation for the need for discipline and basic training in military methods, but above all, I believe we must develop the realization of every individual's responsibility in a democracy for his government. To me any period of training should stress this very clearly and should include service to the community. I believe both boys and girls should receive such training.

In the amenities of life our hoydenish young people are pitifully lacking. Nothing but discipline can give poise, firmness, self-confidence, steadiness, control; nothing can be more beneficial to the youth than to be taught promptness, self-mastery, erect carriage, alertness, cleanliness, obedience, respect, loyalty. Our practice of turning out our young people, raw, uncouth, penniless — into a competitive world to scramble fiercely for a living — cannot give them the real discipline in morals and manners which they need. Nothing can atone for this early lack.

As a former Airman First Class in the United States Air Force, like many veterans in America, my military experience played an important part in instilling in me a sense of character and discipline that has served me throughout my life.

JROTC students make a commitment to serve their communities at an early age, and they learn the discipline and habits to be future leaders.

Kids in sports - it makes such an impact in life with the lessons that you learn.

Golf is one of the greatest games in the world, not just on the course but what it can teach you off the course, the morals, stuff like that.

Sports is one of the keys to my life. It definitely kept me out of a lot of trouble and gave me a lot of discipline.

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.

The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.

I have over and over again explained that the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement is to build men and women as citizens endowed with the three H's namely, Health, Happiness and Helpfulness. The man or woman who succeeds in developing these three attributes has secured the main steps to success this Life.

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Our school not only makes you an actor, it makes you understand who you actually are as well... it gives you discipline and punctuality. It also teaches you a way of life.

I think sports are extremely beneficial for our youth. They parallel life in so many ways.

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.