discipline Quotes

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.