Discipline is very important in organizations as it is for organizing you personal life. If you want to achieve something in sports or any other area you cannot without. But what is it exactly?

According to the free dictionary, the verb discipline may be used to express four actions: to train (a specific pattern of behaviour) ; to teach (a branch of knowledge or teaching) ; to punish (in order to correct) or to impose order (by a set of rules or methods). http://www.thefreedictionary.com/discipline

In fact all four are centered around order; order in the frequency of activities (training), order in subjects (knowledge), order in the class (with or without punishment).

I remember a quote from Evelyn Waugh, which I cannot retrieve, but what say