Self Discipline Quotes - Page 10

• Shamanism is not a religion. It’s a method. And when this method is practiced with humility, reverence and self-discipline, the shaman’s path can become a way of life.

  Hank Wesselman

  Humility, Self, Discipline

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• The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

  Bertrand Russell

  Discipline, Desire, Needs

  Bertrand Russell (1987). “Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage”

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• Leaders aren't born they are made.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Discipline

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• The profile of a wealthy person is this hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline.

  Zig Ziglar

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Self

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.57, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Keys, Self, Discipline

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• This bridge will take you halfway there - the last few steps you will have to take yourself.

  Shel Silverstein

  Halfway There, Bridges, Discipline

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• If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the other kinds of struggles, as well as the military, then the peril to freedom will continue to rise.

  John F. Kennedy

  Military, Struggle, Self

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.305, Best Books on

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• You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Discipline, Over You, Self Control

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• ...Competitive Skaters must be prepared for a lot of work, challenges, self-discipline, and motivation. The desire must be there, but more importantly, your love for the sport.

  Oksana Baiul

  Sports, Motivation, Self

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• But look within and watch the stuff coming up-restlessness, anxiety, impatience, pain-just watch it come up and don't get involved. Much to your surprise, it will simply go away. It rises, it passes away. As simple as that. There is another word for self-discipline. It is patience.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Pain, Simple, Self

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as the swatter remained in view....Permanent transformation had to be internal....The habits of self discipline, as laborious and frustrating as they were to achieve, offered the only real possibility of keeping children safe from their own excesses as well as the omnipresent dangers of society.

  Mary Blakely

  Children, Real, Self

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• They have no power over you. It's all a show, a deception. Your urges scream and bluster at you; they cajole; they coax; they threaten; but they really carry no stick at all. You give in out of habit. You give in because you never really bother to look beyond the threat. It is all empty back there. There is only one way to learn this lesson, though. The words on this page won't do it.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Discipline, Giving, Over You

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling you that you're wrong. But self-discipline is different. It's the skill of seeing through the hollow shouting of your own impulses and piercing their secret.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Self, Skills, Discipline

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule, by which they may be exempted from the tyranny of caprice and of chance. They are glad to supply by external authority their own want of constancy and resolution, and court the government of others, when long experience has convinced them of their own inability to govern themselves.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Order, Discipline

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.422

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• Prayer is self-discipline. The effort to realize the presence and power of God stretches the sinews of the soul and hardens its muscles. To pray is to grow in grace. To tarry in the presence of the King leads to new loyalty and devotion on the part of the faithful subjects. Christian character grows in the secret-place of prayer.

  Samuel Marinus Zwemer

  Christian, Loyalty, Kings

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• I don't think we've got a discipline problem. It's the players who are thick who are causing the problems

  Neil Warnock

  Player, Thinking, Discipline

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• It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• In such sad circumstances I but see myself exalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small works of mine they try to make the whole rational medicine and anatomy fall, as if I were myself these noble disciplines.

  Marcello Malpighi

  Fall, Hard Work, Sadness

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• Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Philosophy

  Denis Waitley (1985). “The Winners Edge”, Berkley

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• Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

  Tom Kite

  Sports, Golf, Discipline

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• One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.

  Carl Zuckmayer

  Life, Success, Good Luck

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• I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Night, Self, Discipline

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• You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Determination, Littles

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• I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

  John Malkovich

  Stupid, Thinking, Self

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• You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Sports, Powerful

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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