Discipline Quotes

"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" "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 you want to be a warrior, you have to train." "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." "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." "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." "Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good." "It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end." "Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves." "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." "Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes." "As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting." "I never needed any external forces to motivate me." "I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you." "?Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." "If you are not yelling at your kids, you are not spending enough time with them" "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." "The fact is, discipline is only punishment when imposed on you by someone else. When you discipline yourself, it's not punishment but empowerment."