Military Discipline Quotes:

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

- Jim Rohn

source: FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 14, 2017

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Spiritual Disciplines, Inspirational Goal Setting

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

- George Washington

topic: Military, War, 4th Of July, Formidable, Inspirational Military

Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

source: Alexis de Tocqueville, Arthur Goldhammer (2004). “Democracy in America”, p.777, Library of America

topic: Military, Discipline, Perfection, Military Discipline

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

topic: Inspirational Life, Self, Discipline, Power And Control, Spiritual Disciplines

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Army, Standing, Military Discipline

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Change, Uplifting, Spiritual, Social Programs, Soul Force

There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.

- Bernard de Mandeville

source: Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.167, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Latin, Military, War, Military Discipline, Latin And Greek

The General Order is always: ......To manoeuver in a body and on the attack. ......To maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline. ......To keep the troops constantly at the ready. ......To employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go. ......To use the bayonet on every possible occasion. And to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed.

- Lazare Carnot

topic: Military, Order, Discipline, Military Discipline, Military General

With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army.

- Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

topic: Military, Army, Discipline, Military Discipline, Revolutionary War

Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave them the impression of military discipline and precision, but as a preparation for a modern war they had no value whatsoever.

- Orlando Figes

source: Orlando Figes (1997). “A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution”, Viking Pr

topic: Military, War, Nice, Military Discipline, Modern War

Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.

- Francois Rabelais

topic: Strong, Wall, Military, Military Discipline

We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Party's demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people of survivals of the accursed past in consciousness and conduct and the fulfillment of the demands of our Soviet ethics and military discipline.

- Filipp Golikov

topic: Military, Party, Past, Military Discipline