Self Discipline Quotes - Page 5

• If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

  William Feather

  Self, Discipline, World

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• Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

  John Smith

  Success, Sports, Regret

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• Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Spiritual

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• And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Time, Giving Up

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• To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self.

  Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

  Wisdom, Self Esteem, Knowledge

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• Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

  Ralph Ellison

  Inspirational, Confidence, Power

  "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, Ch. 6, 1952.

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• Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Food

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Sep 26, 2013

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• A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day fastened a halter, but which now you cannot catch. It is a lion you cage in your study. As the work grows, it gets harder to control; it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room. You enter its room with bravura, holding a chair at the thing and shouting, "Simba!

  Annie Dillard

  Work, Doors, Discipline

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• We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Perseverance, Learning, School

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.255, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole...'Talent is Work'

  Galina Ulanova

  Inspirational, Work, Discipline

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• Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent.

  Benjamin Bloom

  Inspirational, Sports, Creativity

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• Anyone can train hard. Do you have the discipline to recover?

  Lauren Fleshman

  Sports, Recovery, Train Hard

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• But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Peace, Fear, Moving

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• Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

  Epictetus

  Military, Philosophical, Discipline

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.316

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• Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

  Arnold Bennett

  Positive, Happiness, Attitude

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “The Human Machine: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.26, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If we can look upon our work not for self-benefit,but as a means to benefit society,we will be practicing appreciation and patience in our daily lives.

  Gautama Buddha

  Appreciation, Mean, Self

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• The basis of self-discipline: Don't allow the edges to blur.

  Michael Johnson

  Motivational, Self, Discipline

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• Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

  Harvey Mackay

  Success, Sports, Art

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  By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Motivational, Hilarious

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• Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.

  Robert Ringer

  Success, Basketball, Simple

  Robert J. Ringer (1990). “Million dollar habits”, Wynwood

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• Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

  Andy Andrews

  Adversity, Self, Discipline

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• Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is a slave to his own weaknesses.

  Alan Valentine

  Men, Self, Discipline

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  All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Motivational, Self, Discipline

  Twitter post from Feb 23, 2012

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• I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.

  Nick Offerman

  Simple, Discipline, Giving

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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