Discipline Quotes

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.

Life is tons of discipline.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.

How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.

I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.

Focusing is all about saying no.

You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.

Practice makes us what we shall be.

Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.

Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.

The whole point is to discipline the mind.

To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.