Quotes about Discipline

I will form good habits and become their slave.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is—I will form good habits and become their slave.

Never will I overindulge the requests of my flesh, rather I will cherish my body with cleanliness and moderation.

A beard well lathered is half shaven.

Don't use cannon to kill musquito.

Very few go astray who comport themselves with restraint.

Practicing archery is like practicing to be a Gentleman. When you miss the bulls-eye, you look for the error in yourself.

There's a way to train a horse where when you get done you've got the horse. On his own ground. A good horse will figure things out on his own. You can see what's in his heart. He wont do one thing while you're watching him and another when you aint. He's all of a piece. When you've got a horse to that place you cant hardly get him to do somethin he knows is wrong. He'll fight you over it. And if you mistreat him it just about kills him. A good horse has justice in his heart.

The actual process of thinking -in any discipline- is an unconscious affair...The truth is that there is a process here to which we have no access.

Order is Heaven's first law.

Only those who are subject to authority can be authority.