Quotes About Discipline

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind.

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.

Masters in all branches of art must first be masters in living, for the soul creates everything.

Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease, when the mind is obsessed with it.

Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.

I am not afraid of an opponent who practiced ten thousand kicks once. What I am afraid of is an opponent who practiced one kick, ten thousand times

I don't fear the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks but the man who has practiced 1 kick 10,000 times!

The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve.

To understand techniques, you must learn that they contain a lot of condensed movement.

I fear not the man that can throw a thousand different kicks once, but the man who can throw one kick a thousand times.

When the ultimate perfection is attained, the body and limbs perform by themselves what is assigned to them to do with no interference from the mind. The

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

If you would not spill the wine, do not fill the glass too full. If you wish your blade to hold it's edge, do not try to make it over-keen.

Discipline must conform to the nature of things in their suchness.

physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life.

Patience is not passive, on the contrary it is concentrated strength.

Proprio come per mantenere una buona salute a volte bisogna prendere una medicina sgradevole, così per poter fare le cose che ci piacciono spesso bisogna fare qualcosa che non ci piace.

Obviously, if your kick does not commence, his punch will land first, and your defense is useless. Only training can produce results (I can help you with this). If you do not consider a few minutes of training worthwhile, and think the chance of assault is small, you are one of those people who encourages thugs to attack, and no one can help you should an emergency arise.

the whip of the arm is caused by turning the body away from the arm until the range of movement in the shoulder joint is completely used. Then, the arm must turn with the body. Executed quickly, this causes the arm to whip forward as if released from a bow.

Martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fears, and hang-ups.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

If I were a first grader in one of the suburban schools, I would conclude that schools are geared toward two important things: lining up for lunch and putting the chairs on the desks at the end of the school day. These are the only two things that every teacher I observed adamantly insisted on. The child can only conclude that these tasks -- and not reading -- are terribly important. Everything else in the classroom is more or less laissez-faire.