56 Movie Quotes about Discipline (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: August 14, 2025

Memorable quotes about discipline, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 For to march and drill over field and hill is a military goal.

Quote from The Jungle Book (1967)

2 Those were the days. Discipline! Discipline was the thing. Builds character and that sort of thing, you know.

Colonel Hathi in The Jungle Book (1967)

3 Move the rifle around your head, not your head around the rifle.

Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket

4 If you work hard, you will be treated well. But if you do not work hard, you will be punished.

Sessue Hayakawa as Colonel Saito in The Bridge on the River Kwai

5 Happiness is making a schedule and keeping to it.

Rabbit in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

6 Only effort, discipline, loyalty earn the right to wear the dragon dogi.

Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

7 Practice until you can meditate and nothing can distract you, so that you see and feel nothing except your own energy.

Quote from Bloodsport

8 No, no, no. Listen, all of you. You've got to take direction. You've got to have discipline. You've gotta have respect for your director.

Lucy Van Pelt in A Charlie Brown Christmas

9 Group, what we have here is a lack of coordination. Let's keep this orderly.

Don Messick as Ranger Smith in Yogi's First Christmas (1980)

10 Father, I wish you'd try a little love and compassion instead of these harsh punishments. -That would be nice.

Quote from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)