Self Discipline Quotes - Page 11

• I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Wise, Men, Two

  The Moon and Sixpence ch. 2 (1919)

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• One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

  Helen Keller

  Next, Painful, Easier

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.76, 谷月社

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• Do you have agendas for your children that are more important than the children themselves? Lost in the shuffle of uniforms, practices, games, recitals, and performances can be the creative and joyful soul of your child. Watch and listen carefully. Do they have time to daydream? From their dreams will emerge the practices and activities that will make self-discipline as natural as breathing.

  William Martin

  Dream, Children, Self

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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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• It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas, with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one wholly against one's will, then rudely snatched away just when one is starting to get into it. Was really beginning to enjoy the feeling that normal service was suspended and it was OK to lie in bed as long as you want, put anything you fancy into your mouth, and drink alcohol whenever it should chance to pass your way, even in the mornings. Now suddenly we are all supposed to snap into self-discipline like lean teenage greyhounds.

  Helen Fielding

  Morning, Teenage, Lying

  Helen Fielding (2016). “Bridget Jones's Diary: Picador Classic”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

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• Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

  Brian Tracy

  Self, Discipline, Important

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• If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics has given mankind a metrical and computatory art essential to the effective conduct of daily life, that mathematics admits of countless applications in engineering and the natural sciences, and finally that mathematics is a most excellent instrumentality for giving mental discipline... [A mathematician will add] that mathematics is the exact science, the science of exact thought or of rigorous thinking.

  Cassius Jackson Keyser

  Art, Science, Thinking

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• I noticed affixed to a laboratory door the following words: "Les théories passent. Le Grenouille reste. [The theories pass. The frog remains.] &mdashJean Rostand, Carnets d'un biologiste." There is a risk that in the less severe discipline of criticism the result may turn out to be different; the theories will remain but the frog may disappear.

  Frank Kermode

  Science, Doors, Differences

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• There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad but true that physics has irretrievably fallen apart from a cohesive to a fragmented discipline. ... It was not that long ago that people were complaining about two cultures. If we only had it that good. today.

  Abraham Pais

  Science, Long Ago, Two

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• Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

  Eric Mangini

  Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports

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• Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

  Matt Taibbi

  Integrity, Greed, Democracy

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. November 2, 2010.

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• Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Maturity, Discipline, Mind

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• One who was born in the house of a warrior, regardless of his rank or class, first acquaints himself with a man of military feats and achievements in loyalty....Everyone knows that if a man doesn't hold filial piety toward his own parents he would also neglect his duties toward his lord. Such a neglect means a disloyalty toward humanity. Therefore such a man doesn't deserve to be called 'samurai'.

  Takeda Shingen

  Loyalty, Military, Mean

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• Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Commitment, Ideas, Discipline

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.48, Library of America

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• Synchronicities, epiphanies, peak, and mystical experiences are all cases in which creativity breaks through the barriers of the self and allows awareness to flood through the whole domain of consciousness. It is the human mind operating, for a moment, in its true order and moving through orders of increasing subtlety, reaching past the source of mind and matter into creativity itself.

  F. David Peat

  Moving, Creativity, Past

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• At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the journey itself, which is nothing but the process through which we lose our ownership of it.

  Yukio Mishima

  Journey, Discipline, Preparation

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.118, New Directions Publishing

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• If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.

  Dogen

  Discipline, Mind, Finding Peace

  "Things Overheard at the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma". Book by Dogen translated by Reiho Masunaga, June 1975.

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• Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.

  Dogen

  Short Life, Discipline, Dew

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• A bigot is a person who makes an idol of his commitments.

  Howard Thurman

  Commitment, Idols, Discipline

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• Fundamentally, what everyone needs is mental strength and confidence, to manage the mind, just as we manage the outside world.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Discipline, Mind, Needs

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• Self Realization is finding That which is beyond even superconsciousness itself, beyond the mind-timeless, causeless, spaceless.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Self, Discipline, Growth

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• You don't discipline yourself to attain the feeling of love. You attain the feeling of love and then you want to discipline yourself because you love the discipline, because it brings more love.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Love, Discipline, Feelings

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• We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us.

  Tim Cook

  Meaningful, Believe, Discipline

  "Apple's Tim Cook: We're Fine Without Steve Jobs (AAPL)" by Dan Frommer, www.businessinsider.com. January 21, 2009.

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• Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.

  Khalil Gibran

  Passion, Eye, Discipline

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• Never argue, repeat your assertion.

  Robert Owen

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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