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The core of a soldier is moral discipline. It is intertwined with the discipline of physical and mental achievement. It motivates doing on your own what is right without prodding. It is an inner critic that refuses to tolerate less than your best. Total discipline overcomes adversity and physical stamina draws on an inner strength that says "drive on".
Without self-discipline, a noncommissioned officer can never develop or maintain personal integrity.
He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end.
Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.
For order and a society to exist - and a basketball team is a society within itself - it needs discipline.
If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.
Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline.
Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment
Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.
A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules, and it is of such force that it not only upholds those who are born princes, but it often enables men to rise from a private station to that rank. And, on the contrary, it is seen that when princes have thought more of ease than of arms they have lost their states. And the first cause of your losing it is to neglect this art; and what enables you to acquire a state is to be master of the art.
Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.
No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know how to recognize an opportunity in war, and take it, benefits you more than anything else. Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many. Discipline in war counts more than fury.
In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise: which of the two generals has the most ability? on which side is Discipline most rigorously enforced? which army is stronger? on which side are the officers and men more highly trained? in which army is there the greater constancy both in reward and punishment?
Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.
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