Quotes About Discipline

Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge.

There is a discipline, a spiritual code that you should adhere to, that you do not hurt anyone in any way shape or form either mentally or physically.

The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

Keeping your body in shape is a spiritual discipline. Its not just about losing a few pounds, wanting to live longer, or trying to look nicer.

If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.

Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.

Every man has a feminine side, and every woman a masculine side. It is important to use discipline with intuition, and to use intuition with objectivity.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

As you train your mind, shockingly it brings you prosperity as well as the faculty to maintain it.

Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.

Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.

Spiritual education is not a distinct and separate discipline; it is part and parcel of all types and levels of education, In fact, it is the very foundation on which a lasting edifice can be built.

Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.

Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.

Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to it without compromise or dilution.

Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for a week.

Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.

A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.

One who conquers others is great, one who conquers the world is mighty, but one who conquers himself is divine.