Quotes About Discipline

Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.

Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!

Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God. That's what my grandmother used to say, said Brutha automatically. Indeed? I would like to know more about this formidable lady. She used to give me a thrashing every morning because I would certainly do something to deserve it during the day, said Brutha. A most complete understanding of the nature of mankind

Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.

Vimes felt his hand begin to move of its own accord-- And stopped. Red rage froze. There was The Beast, all around him. And that's all it was. A beast. Useful, but still a beast. You could hold it on a chain, and make it dance, and juggle balls. It didn't think. It was dumb. What you were, what you were, was not The Beast.

I nearly committed a terrible sin, said Brutha. I nearly ate fruit on a fruitless day. That's a terrible thing, a terrible thing, said Om. Now cut the melon.

Shut up sergeant. You're a free troll. That's an order Sam Vimes

Genuine anger was one of the world's great creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge.

Bein' a soldier is not hard. If it was, soldiers would not be able to do it.

Bein' a soldier is not hard! If it was, soldiers would not be able to do it! There is only three things you need to remember, which are, viz: one obey orders two give it to the enemy good and hard three don't die.

Magrat liked to think she was good with children, and worried that she wasn't. She didn't like them very much, and worried about this too. Nanny Ogg seemed to be effortlessly good with children by alternately and randomly giving them either a sweet or a thick ear, while Granny Weatherwax ignored them for most of the time and that seemed to work just as well.

The office of Master of Traditions had fallen inevitably on Ponder Stibbons, who tended to get all the jobs that required someone who thought that things should happen on time and that numbers should add up.

Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants—the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare from becoming a mere lower-class brawl.

ADD has turned into a catchall for all childhood misbehavior. When a student's failing in class, or he gets into mischief

He's a drill sergeant

Control the senses, practice equanimity. Live by disciplinary rules. Associate with good friends who are not lazy and live purely. Be courteous and well-mannered, and thus, full of joy. Put an end to suffering.

If we are not in control of ourselves but instead let our impatience or anger interfere, then our work is no longer of any value.

the essential discipline of following one's breath to nourish and maintain calm mindfulness, even in the midst of the most difficult circumstances.

Those who practice restraint in body, word, and mind are surely in control of themselves.

Just as an arrow smith shapes an arrow to perfection with fire, so does the wise man shape his mind.

Soldiers fear the frontier post, monks fear the Surangama Dharani!

Unchecked craving strangles the careless man.

Curb your speech, restrain your mind, commit no evil deed.

The bikku should not rest content until mental intoxicants are fully extinct.