Quotes About Discipline

Do you need strength? Peace? Wisdom? Direction? Discipline? Ask for it! God will hear you.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.

If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.

There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.

From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.

Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the "do's" it might be easier to obey the "don'ts"

True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics.

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.

Most of us make our minds like spoilt children, allowing them to do whatever they want. Therefore it is necessary that Kriya-yoga should be constantly practised, in order to gain control of the mind, and bring it into subjection. The obstructions to Yoga arise from lack of control, and cause us pain. They can only be removed by denying the mind, and holding it in check, through the means of Kriya-yoga.

If you want the reward, you must also have the punishment; the only way to get out of the punishment is to give up the reward.

The Yogi believes in psychic control and the conquest of internal nature. "How

He who does so, says the Gita, cannot be a Yogi: He who fasts, he who keeps awake, he who sleeps much, he who works too much, he who does no work, none of these can be a Yogi (Gita, VI, 16).

first build up your physique. then only you can get control over the mind.

The purer the mind, the easier it is to control it.

What is meant, therefore, by this mortification? Holding the rein firmly while guiding the body and the organs; not letting them do anything they like, but keeping them both under proper control.

Yama, Niyama, Âsana, Prânâyâama, Pratyâhâra, Dhâranâ, Dhyâna, and Samâdhi are the eight limbs of Yoga.

We must be the masters, and not the slaves of nature; neither body nor mind must be our master, nor must we forget that the body is mine, and not I the body's.

He who stops his activities and at the same time is still thinking about them attains to nothing; he only becomes a hypocrite. But he who by the power of his mind gradually brings his sense-organs under control, employing them in work, that man is better. Therefore do thou work

Practise hard; whether you live or die does not matter. You have to plunge in and work, without thinking of the result.

Thus the man that has practiced control over himself cannot be acted upon by anything outside; there is no more slavery for him.