Quotes About Discipline

A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of a tiger.

In war, discipline can do more than fury.

...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.

Madam, if your son were to come home and try to shirk duty, you ought to shut your door in his face and treat him as a renegade unworthy of your name or regard.

He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.

No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.

An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.

The game of football makes men out of boys. Let's see if it can make a woman out of you.

him lazy and stupid, they lashed his knuckles

That was half the problem with kids these days. No responsibility.

The Buddhadharma is not, however, associated with the practice of being a candy-ass.

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

practice this skill with this book.

Writing isn't magic, it's work; earning a living as a writer means showing up at the typewriter every day, whether you feel like it or not.

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

Consistency- you can't buy it. It can only be created at the individual level in the moment, moment to moment through the law of compounding.

Something I have never mastered. Something I've never even tried to master.

Hasel gustosamente lee su Biblia, lleno de celo como vimos todos, Come verdura fresca y papas hervidas, zanahorias y pepinos crudos. Les predica a todos la buena palabra de la temperancia, no come carne, no fuma, no bebe: así debería ser un cristiano".

She'd also prepared by wearing her hair combed back severely from her face, and putting on her stiffest, highestcollared business suit. She all but carried a riding crop.

Humans are not put to sleep for failing to provide leadership for their dogs, countless dogs have lost their lives for the want of it.

No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.