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When you need Buddha's lens on Discipline, this is your reference library. Every quote is sourced and contextualized, giving you immediate access to their best thinking on the subject. Use this collection to inform decisions, challenge assumptions, or find clarity when Discipline becomes complex. Buddha's approach offers practical frameworks that ambitious professionals can apply without translation.
"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes."
"One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand men on the battlefield."
"There is nothing so disobedient as an untrained mind, and nothing so obedient as a trained mind."
"Patience is the highest asceticism."
"Patience is the root of all spiritual progress."
"There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind."
"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."
"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance."
"Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes."
"Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again and you will be filled with joy."
"Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves."
"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."
"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what help will they do you if you do not act on them?"
"Arise! Watch! Do not be neglectful! Follow the law of virtue! The virtuous rest in bliss in this world and in the next."
"He who endures without yielding, he is a true seeker of the path."
"The forest of the mind is thick; only with the blade of patience can one clear the path."
"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on them?"
"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you."
"Patience is the path to the deathless; negligence the path to death."
"A disciplined mind brings happiness."
"Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most."
"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill."
"To conquer oneself is a greater task than to conquer others."
"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."
"Like a beautiful flower, full of color, but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act as he says."
"Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence."
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