Discipline is any training intended to produce a specific character or pattern of behaviour.

Discipline may also refer to:

General

  • Discipline (academia), a specific branch of knowledge, learning and practice, such as an academic or professional discipline
  • Discipline (BDSM), an element of BDSM
  • Disciplinary procedure, censure under rules of assembly
  • Punishment, an imposition of something negative on a person or animal in response to behavior deemed wrong
  • Military discipline, the ability and willingness of a military's soldiery to follow orders and act as commanded.

Christianity

  • Church discipline, a response of an ecclesiastical body to an offence against its standards of belief or conduct committed by a member of that body
  • Discipline (mortification), a type of scourge used in the Christian spiritual discipline known as the mortification of the flesh

Music

  • Discipline (band), an independent rock band from Detroit
  • The Disciplines, a Norwegian garage-rock band
  • Discipline, the name of a mid-1981 line-up of King Crimson
  • Discipline GM, an independent record label founded by Robert Fripp

Albums

  • Discipline (Cadaver Inc. album)
  • Discipline (Desmond Child album)
  • Discipline (Janet Jackson album)
  • Discipline (King Crimson album)
  • Discipline (Kompressor album)

Songs

  • "Discipline" (instrumental), by King Crimson
  • "Discipline" (Nine Inch Nails song)
  • "Discipline" (Throbbing Gristle song)
  • "Discipline", a song by Cadaver Inc. from their album of the same name
  • "Discipline", a song by Desmond Child from his album of the same name
  • "Discipline", a song by Gang Starr from Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr
  • "Discipline", a song by Janet Jackson from her album of the same name
  • "Discipline", a song by Orelsan from La fête est finie - Épilogue

Novels

  • Discipline, a 1814 novel by Mary Brunton
  • Discipline (novel), a 2025 novel by Randa Abdel-Fattah

See also

  • Disciple (disambiguation)
  • Disciplina, a minor Roman deity who is the personification of discipline.
  • List of academic disciplines
  • Self control, an ability to control one's emotions, behavior and desires in order to obtain some reward later