Self Discipline Quotes - Page 12

• I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Thinking, Self

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.63, Penguin

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• Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

  Steven Pressfield

  Motivation, Technology, Self

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• There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

  George S. Patton

  Discipline, Perfect

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• Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

  Thomas Paine

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Motivation

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• To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall from your lips. To die to self through self-discipline causes suffering but brings you everlasting life.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Fall, Self

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• Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.

  Harper Lee

  Writing, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Roy Newquist, www.foxnews.com. 1964.

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• Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

  Peter McWilliams

  Acceptance, Law, Discipline

  John-Roger, Peter McWilliams (1993). “We Give to Love: Giving Is Such a Selfish Thing : Notes and Quotes on the Joys of Heartfelt Service”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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

  Eric Mangini

  Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports

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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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• 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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• 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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• Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.

  Sebastian Coe

  Winning, Self, Discipline

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• Sure I am a religious man who is also passionate about conserving the environment. But I am also a CEO, with all the bad habits and attitudes that are natural to the species. . . . I am still naturally self-interested, overconfident, full of pride, and eager to control a meeting as any CEO in America. Every day, I struggle with my ego.

  Tom Chappell

  Religious, Attitude, Struggle

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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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• What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Loss, Evil, Meditation

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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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• A successful career will no longer be about promotion. It will be about mastery.

  Michael Martin Hammer

  Successful, Careers, Discipline

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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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• Never argue, repeat your assertion.

  Robert Owen

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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