Quotes About Discipline

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.

Perhaps sex was something you had to learn and then stick at until you were good at it, like hockey or the piano. But an initial lesson would be helpful.

Men must sweat to attain virtue.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.

The American people rightly look to their military leaders to be not only skilled in the technical aspects of the profession of arms, but to be men of integrity

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

I would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus.

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?

Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.

The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

To improve the oarsman you must improve the man.

When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.