Quotes About Discipline

Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.

Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.

He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.

The glow of good health can be yours for the price of hard work, wise choices, and respect for your body.

When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease.

Cleanliness is next to impossible.

He had sought to equip himself with the tools of artistry. On the other hand, he had not sacrificed strength. His conscious aim had been to increase his strength by avoiding excess of strength. Nor

He must master or be mastered;

Tutte le cattive maniere sono abitudini; ed anche le buone, però. Dipende da noi che le abitudini siano buone o cattive.

Well, Buck, my boy," he went on in a genial voice, "we've had our little ruction, and the best thing we can do is to let it go at that. You've learned your place, and I know mine. Be a good dog and all 'll go well and the goose hang high. Be a bad dog, and I'll whale the stuffin' outa you. Understand?

Sir Julian Hove was, to use the most comprehensive term, a martinet. He was likewise a man utterly without humor.

The Mongol's success arose from their cohesion and discipline, bred over millennia as nomads working in small groups, and from their steadfast loyalty to their leader.

Get up early and go to bed late.

What is a warrior's first and greatest weapon, young Khai?" "It is his mind, Elder Brother," I said.

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner. It is much better to confine yourself to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

The man of virtue will bridle his tongue, and thus learn how rightly to govern the mind. He will not let his tongue run idly and foolishly, but will make his speech strong and pure, and will either talk with a purpose or remain silent.

Change of diet will not help a man who will not change his thoughts. When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food. Clean thoughts make clean habits.

Self-control is strength; Right Thought is mastery; Calmness is power.

The man who sets his whole mind on the doing of each task as it is presented, who puts into it energy and intelligence, shutting all else out from his mind, and striving to do that one thing, no matter how small, completely and perfectly, detaching himself from all reward in his task - that man will every day be acquiring greater command over his mind, and will, by ever- ascending degrees, become at last a man of power - a Master.

It is a common error to suppose that the Higher Life is a matter of reading, and the adoption of theological or metaphysical hypotheses, and that Spiritual Principles can be understood by this method. The Higher Life is higher living in thought, word, and deed, and the knowledge of those Spiritual Principles which are imminent in man and in the universe can only be acquired after long discipline in the pursuit and practice of Virtue.

A man does not live until he begins to discipline himself ; he merely exists.

that strength can only be developed by effort and practice

Let men, therefore, practice self-denial; let them conquer their animal inclinations; let them refuse to be enslaved by luxury and pleasure; let them practice virtue, and grow daily into high and ever higher virtue, until at last they grow into the Divine