Friedrich Nietzsche on Discipline Quotes

"One must learn to see, one must learn to think... the goal in all three is a noble culture which requires long discipline."

"The spirit of gravity is only overcome by those who have learned the patience of the dancer."

"He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures."

"To become what one is, one must not have the faintest notion what one is. This is the paradox of self-discipline."

"The Stoics were the masters of self-overcoming, but they forgot that the body and its passions are also part of the self."

"The Stoic training of the will is a preparation for the great health, the health that one does not merely have, but also acquires continually."

"Self-mastery is the highest form of power. The Stoic seeks to rule himself so that he may not be ruled by the chaos of his emotions."

"One must learn to sit still and wait for the spirit to move; this is the hardest discipline of all."

"The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires."

"Wait!—they are not yet for you, these great words. You must first become the ear that is worthy of such a sound."

"The discipline of suffering, of great suffering—do you not know that it is this discipline alone which has created every elevation of mankind hitherto?"

"The spirit's patience.—The spirit that is sure of itself does not hurry; it allows its thoughts to ripen and does not force the season."

"The path to greatness is a long path of solitude and patience; there are no shortcuts to the summit."

"One must learn to wait for the right moment as the predator waits; this is the strength of the will."