Determination vs. Discipline — What's the Difference?

Determination is a positive emotional feeling that involves persevering towards a difficult goal in spite of obstacles. Determination occurs prior to goal attainment and serves to motivate behavior that will help achieve one's goal.

Discipline is action or inaction that is regulated to be in accordance (or to achieve accord) with a particular system of governance. Discipline is commonly applied to regulating human and animal behavior to its society or environment it belongs.

The quality of being determined; firmness of purpose

Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement

The process of establishing something exactly by calculation or research

Control obtained by enforcing compliance or order

The controlling or deciding of the nature or outcome of something

Controlled behavior resulting from disciplinary training; self-control

The cessation of an estate or interest.

A state of order based on submission to rules and authority

A tendency to move in a fixed direction.

Punishment intended to correct or train

Firmness of purpose; resolve

A set of rules or methods, as those regulating the practice of a church or monastic order.

A fixed intention or resolution

A branch of knowledge or teaching

The ascertaining or fixing of the quantity, quality, position, or character of something

To train by instruction and practice, as in following rules or developing self-control

The result of such ascertaining.

To punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience.

The act of making or arriving at a decision

To impose order on

The decision reached

A controlled behaviour; self-control.

The settling of a question or case by an authoritative decision or pronouncement, especially by a judicial body

An enforced compliance or control.

The decision or pronouncement made.

A systematic method of obtaining obedience.

The bringing about of a result or outcome

A state of order based on submission to authority.

(Archaic) A fixed movement or tendency toward an object or end.

A set of rules regulating behaviour.

The defining of a concept through its constituent elements.

A punishment to train or maintain control.

The qualification of a concept or proposition to render it more definite or specific.

A specific branch of knowledge or learning.

The act of determining, or the state of being determined.

A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.

Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.

(transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.

The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness.

(transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.

(countable) The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy.

(transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.

(countable) That which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution.

(transitive) To impose order on someone.

A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part

The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.

(countable) The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.

Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.

The act of defining a concept or notion by giving its essential constituents.

Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.

The addition of a distinguishing feature to a concept or notion, thus limiting its extent.

Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.

The act of determining the relations of an object, such as genus and species; the referring of minerals, plants, or animals, to the species to which they belong; classification

Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.

Bringing to an end; termination; limit.

The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.

The act of determining, or the state of being determined.

The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.

Bringing to an end; termination; limit.

Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.

Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.

A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.

The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness.

To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.

The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy.

To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill.

That which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution.

To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.

A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part; as, a determination of blood to the head.

To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.

The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.; as, the determination of the ohm or of the wave length of light; the determination of the salt in sea water, or the oxygen in the air.

A branch of knowledge;

The act of defining a concept or notion by giving its essential constituents.

A system of rules of conduct or method of practice;

The act of determining the relations of an object, as regards genus and species; the referring of minerals, plants, or animals, to the species to which they belong; classification; as, I am indebted to a friend for the determination of most of these shells.

The trait of being well behaved;

The act of determining the properties of something

Training to improve strength or self-control

The quality of being determined to do or achieve something;

The act of punishing;

A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration;

Train by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control;

The act of making up your mind about something;

Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience;