Cesar Chavez Quotes

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

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.

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

The disciplined are free.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

All freedom comes from discipline.

Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline?

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

A well-governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.

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.

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.