Discipline Quote by Nancy Goldstone

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

A prince must not have any objective nor any thought, nor take up any art, other than the art of war and its ordering…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“A Prince, therefore, should have no care or thought but for war, and for the regulations and training it requires, and should apply himself…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline;…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“[I]f subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable;”

— David Hume

“A prince, therefore, ought always to take counsel, but only when he wishes and not when others wish; he ought rather to discourage every…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“And you have to understand this, that a prince, especially a new one, cannot observe all those things for which men are esteemed, being…

— Machiavelli Nicolo Machiavelli

“It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“For how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“And a young prince must be prudent like that, giving freely while his father lives so that afterwards, in age when fighting starts steadfast…

— Seamus Heaney