Discipline Quotes

"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." "Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves." "Don’t run after pleasure and neglect the practice of meditation. If you forget the goal of life and get caught in the pleasures of the world, you will come to envy those who put meditation first." "Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good." "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." "The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights." "My mother never gave up on me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back." "If you want to be a warrior, you have to train." "If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, then the general is to blame. But, if orders are clear and the soldiers nevertheless disobey, then it is the fault of their officers." "If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be u" "Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive." "It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end." "Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." "The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment."