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Quotes About Discipline

The maliciousness of psychiatry is that it promotes itself as a medical discipline, although it is actually only part of the state authority.24 Therein
~ Thomas Stephen Szasz
Other golfers may outplay me from time to time, but they'll never outwork me.
~ Tiger Woods
By Allah! Never have I seen the discipline I've seen this day, and in men who have come from here, there and everywhere . . . No, not among the noble Persians, nor the Byzantines with their braided locks!
~ Tim Mackintosh-Smith
They would get their shit together, and keep it together, and maintain it neatly and in good working order.
~ Tim O'Brien
Concentration, focus, long-term thinking—those are the qualities that separate a warrior from a mere flailing fighter.
~ Timothy Zahn
Because it's easier? Samakro growled. This is the Expansionary Defense Fleet, Caregiver. We don't do things just because they're easier. We do things because they work.
~ Timothy Zahn
Many of those skilled in technological warfare believe that physical training and discipline are unnecessary. With turbolasers, hyperdrives, armor plating and the mental resources to direct them, muscular strength and agility are thought to be merely conceits. They are wrong. The mind and body are linked together in a meshwork of oxygen, nutrients, hormones and neuron health. Physical exercise drives that meshwork, stimulating the brain and freeing one's intellect.
~ Timothy Zahn
you can't out-exercise a bad diet.
~ Tina Martin
I think one should be antagonistic to one's underlings. It keeps them on their toes. ~Soi Fon
~ Tite Kubo
He who does not fear the sword he holds is not worthy of holding a sword. -Hisagi Shuuhei
~ Tite Kubo
Self-control is tightly linked with imagining the future. If you can't imagine the future, there's no reason to exhibit any discipline or self-control.
~ Todd G. Buchholz
Great teachers focus on expectations. Other teachers focus on rules. The least effective teachers focus on the consequences of breaking the rules.
~ Todd Whitaker
Tradition is important," Evans said. "For a soldier, tradition is often the reason one carries on when there are so many reasons not to. It's more than just yourself, more than just your mates—but it's not just something for soldiers, is it? It is true—or should be true—of any professional community.
~ Tom Clancy
You can act like a policeman or a soldier, but not both.
~ Tom Clancy
The arts and soldiering took time to acquire – time and discipline and desire. No, he was up against bullies. And bullies were cowards. These were mercenaries who acted for money. Shot as, on the other hand, took great pride that he performed his DUTIES for love of country and, though he didn't quite think of it in those terms, for love of his fellow soldiers.
~ Tom Clancy
A Guards regiment, eh, Comrade Colonel? These tit-sucking children could not guard a Turkish whorehouse; much less do anything worthwhile inside of it!" While commenting on how unprepared his troops are. -Alekseyev
~ Tom Clancy
He had to do so many things and make each appear as though it were the only thing he had to do. He had to compartmentalize everything, when on one task to pretend that the others didn't exist.
~ Tom Clancy
He had to grow his own NCOs.
~ Tom Clancy
First we must accomplish the task at hand. An officer who looks too far ahead stumbles over his own boots.
~ Tom Clancy
Marine." Say the word to any American, and you can count on a strong reaction.
~ Tom Clancy
preparation, knowledge, and discipline can deal with any form of danger; that danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.
~ Tom Clancy
proverbial pros from Dover
~ Tom Clancy
no one rose to exceptional greatness exclusively by being "a good soldier.
~ Tom Clancy
Sir didn't mean anything, Kelly knew. When in doubt, a Marine would call a lightpole "Sir." He
~ Tom Clancy