Quotes About Discipline

The idea of molding men means a lot to me.

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.

To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.

To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

I'm still a martial artist at heart. I believe in controlling yourself... I think that's huge in life-to be a good man.

If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses . . . only through discipline may a man learn to be free.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.

Great men should drink with harness on their throats.

A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.

Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.

Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.

I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything. The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends.

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.

Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words. A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.