Quotes About Discipline

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.

Eruditos de Oriente y Occidente consagraron heroicamente sus existencias profesionales a poner a disposición del público el material literario y filosófico sufi, utilizando para ello sus propias disciplinas. En muchos casos hicieron referencia a la insistencia de los propios sufis en que el camino de los sufis no puede ser comprendido valiéndose del intelecto o mediante el común aprendizaje a través de libros.

La humildad es una maestra de sí misma. Se aprende por medio de su misma práctica.

La humildad tiene que preceder a la instrucción.

El secreto se protege a sí mismo. Se lo encuentra únicamente en el espíritu y en la práctica del Trabajo.

Cuando oración, rituales y vida ascética son solo los medios para la autoindulgencia, son más dañinos que beneficiosos.

Si quieres convertirte en calígrafo, escribe, escribe y escribe.

The harshness of a teacher is better than the reputed softness of the parent.

Saadi: Be a true renouncer, (zahid) and [you can even] ware satin.

Saadi: Sé un verdadero renunciador (zahid) e incluso podrás usar raso.

Restraint. The original purpose of cultivating restraint is so that eventually one will not need to have restraint.

La aspereza de un maestro es mejor que la supuesta ternura de un padre.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

if it happens that the soul is attached or inclined to a thing inordinately, that one should move himself, putting forth all his strength, to come to the contrary of what he is wrongly drawn to.

The more art is controlled, limited, worked over, the more it is free.

Never Walk Past a Mistake This is one of the first lessons drilled into young military leaders. To put it another way: make on-the-spot corrections.

At the same time, traditions and rituals remain essential to the military mystique. They instill a sense of belonging and importance in the lives of young soldiers.

Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.

Prince Akeem Oh, it was a most amazing game. The Giants of New York took on the Packers of Green Bay. The Giants triumphed by kicking a pigskin ball through a big H. A most ripping victory. Cleo McDowell Son... I'm just going to tell you this one time. If you want to keep working here, stay off the drugs.

A scholar who loves comfort is not worthy of the name.

By nature, near together; by practice far apart.

A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.

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

To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare remain incorrect?