Quotes About Discipline

Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks.

If a man takes one day off, it takes him about three days to get the harness fitted again.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.

If a man seriously proposes to go in for lifting heavy weights, he should make a point of practising certain lifts every day. This daily practice is essential to the achievement of any real success.

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.

The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.

Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

Beware the man with one gun. He can probably use it.

Show me a man with a great golf game, and I'll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.

A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.