274 quotes found
“A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.”
“We love surfers for the same reasons we have always admired doctors and pilots and firemen and shamans, for the same reasons we admire excellent soldiers: because despite themselves they have bowed...”
“Passion is a Horse Given to Us to Discipline.”
“Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.”
“Pain is a physical discipline.”
“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
“Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, you...”
“If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.”
“The war had made some into libertines and some into serious, sober men.”
“The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.”
“Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)”
“As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of ...”
“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
“The best way to reach your Goal is to say "NO" more than you say "YES”
“Discipline leads us to freedom and freedom leads us to fulfillment.”
“Discipline must be without control, without suppression, without any form of fear...It is not discipline first and then freedom; freedom is at the very beginning, not at the end.”
“Discipline is needed in our family lives.”
“Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in moments of adversity--precisely the time whenyou need strength. What best equips you to cope with t...”
“Anyone who, neglecting that fixed hour of prayer, [will] say he can pray at all times but will probably end in praying at no time.”
“If every citizen can get rid of indiscipline syndrome, we have immense potential to build more productive, conflict-free, harmonious and peaceful communities, societies, cities, nations and world.”
