Quotes About Discipline

The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.

The commander must establish personal and comradely contact with his men, but without giving away one inch of authority.

The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.

The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.

No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself.

A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue

As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by him: and as long as the belly is unrestrained, all virtue comes to naught.

The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

What is the world coming to when you get a red card and get fined two weeks' wages for calling a grown man a wanker?

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

I train very hard, until I am sick. Sometimes I train like a foolish man who has no mind.

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

Last week I lost my temper in my karate class. Man, I'm not doing that again until I'm a black belt. Because I can tell you there's a difference between taking karate and receiving karate.

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.

A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess