Quotes about Discipline

What if exercise and discipline in eating isn't as much about physical health as about honoring the God who made us?

A captivated heart, a bridled tongue, a limited curiosity, and a slow reentry after prayer are necessary disciplines of simplicity.

Ascetics are "strict" only because they want to reserve a major portion of their lives for their passionate pursuit of God.

Successful people are simply those with success habits.

We must, nevertheless, always work at it, because not to advance in the spiritual life is to go back.

I made this my business as much all the day long as at the appointed times of prayer; for at all times, every hour, every minute, even in the height of my business, I drove away from my mind everything that was capable of interrupting my thought of GOD. Such has been my common practice ever since I entered in religion; and, though I have done it very imperfectly, yet I have found great advantages by it.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.