Quotes About Discipline

Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

With regard to performance, commitment, effort, dedication, there is no middle ground. Or you do something very well or not at all.

The path the Buddha taught and is explaining to Po??hap›da in this sutta has to be followed step by step. First comes morality, then guarding the sense-doors, mindfulness and clear comprehension, contentment, letting go of the hindrances, and — only after these — the first meditative absorption.

on the higher levels of the spiritual path, celibacy is considered a most important aspect of the training.

The yogi stills his mind by constant study and by freeing himself from desires. The eight stages of Yoga teach him the way.

justice and the birch.

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

However, if there was a time that Sukumar didn't want to do a lot of push-ups, he didn't force himself. He did two and felt good about keeping the habit alive. Part of this skill is knowing when to back off and do only the baseline.

When you are designing a new habit, you are really designing for consistency. And for that result, you'll find that simplicity is the key. Or as I like to teach my students: Simplicity changes behavior.

By keeping the bar low, you keep the habit alive.

I found that people typically have the most routines in the morning. This makes morning fertile soil for cultivating new habits.

Pain is a great philosopher, because it thinks constantly of how to get rid of itself and demands discipline.

For one who lacks ethical discipline and perfect physical health, there can be no spiritual illumination. Body, mind and spirit are inseparable: if the body is asleep, the soul is asleep. The

Stability-The Physical Body (Asana)

I am fanatical with myself when I practice yoga. It is true. You should be fanatical with yourself, but not with others.

This is the problem with "long termism," a problem yoga identified more than two thousand years ago. When life's rap on the knuckles is not immediate enough to react as a deterrent, or the reward does not come fast enough to act as a spur, we tend to fell and act like children. We seek immediate gratification.

Freedom, that is to say direct experience of samadhi, can be attained only by disciplined conduct and renunciation of sensual desires and appetites. This is brought about through adherence to the 'twin pillars' of yoga, abhyasa and vairagya. Abhyasa

As you take great pains to learn, continue with devotion in what you have learned. Learning is very difficult, but it is twice as difficult to keep the ground gained.

The asana will not come by making faces.

Pain comes only when the body does not understand how to do the asana, which is the case in the beginning. In the correct posture, pain does not come. To learn the right posture, you have to face the pain. There is no other way.

If you want a simple way to remember the relationship between asana and concentration (dharana), it is this: If you learn a lot of little things, one day you may end up knowing a big thing.