Quotes About Discipline

Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war.

There is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all. This person is aware of the endlessness of entering deeply into a certain Way and never thinks of himself as having finished.

The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.

Sir! Men who desert their comrades in war deserve to be shot! And Officers who intrude for them deserve to be hung!

At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.

By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.

The important thing in war is that there is an element of rage, but you must remain very distant from it.

The church should be a disciplined charging army. Christians, like slaves and solders ask no questions. We are fighting a holy war.

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.

It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.

In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.

The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.

An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way.

If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. [One may know the condition of a whole army from the behavior of a single man.]

ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head

The warrior must never get angry in war.

Soldiers are not trained for retire

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak.

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.

The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.

The purpose of Karate is to guide you out of trouble by any means necessary, both in actual combat and in life

He who whets his steel, whets his courage.

The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain.