Self Discipline Quotes - Page 13

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

  Howard Thurman

  Commitment, Idols, Discipline

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are allowed to imagine in science must be consistent with everything else we know.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Knowledge, Science, Imagination

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2015). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter”, p.678, Basic Books

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• Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.

  William L. Shirer

  Happiness, Reflection, Self

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• No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

  Seneca the Elder

  Inspirational, Powerful, Philosophical

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• In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the habit-forming luxuries which get such a hold on men today. I do not say that to be a contemplative one absolutely has to go without smoking or without alcohol, but certainly one must be able to use these things without being dominated by an uncontrolled need for them.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Contemplative Life, Self

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.86, New Directions Publishing

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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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• The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself- including things like using your time well. In this way, self-discipline is self-caring.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love You, Caring, Self

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• Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

  Alistair Cooke

  Self, Luxury, Discipline

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• Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time leading yourself-your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers. If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

  Dee Hock

  Motivation, Discipline, Over You

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• It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Success, Cities, Discipline

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• One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

  Bob Richards

  Motivational, Life Lesson, Athlete

  Bob Richards (2009). “The Heart of a Champion: Inspiring True Stories of Challenge and Triumph”, p.74, Revell

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• I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.

  Amy Chua

  Children, Self, Discipline

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• It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

  Clint Eastwood

  Influence And Power, Discipline, People

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• It's never crowded along the extra mile.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “A Promise Is a Promise: An Almost Unbelievable Story of a Mother's Unconditional Love and What It Can Teach Us: Easyread Large Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• she was aware of his love - how could she not? She perceived it every time he looked at her. He was not demonstrative, but his ardour was all the more evident for the reins with which he restrained it, the mask of steel behind which he imprisoned it, his detached demeanour and deliberate gestures that, far from parading a lack of interest, displayed the strength of his self-discipline, that he could so tightly curb the intensity of his passion.

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton

  Passion, Self, Discipline

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2007). “The Well of Tears: Book Two of The Crowthistle Chronicles”, p.521, Tor Books

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• The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  "Proverbial Wisdom: Proverbs, Maxims and Ethical Sentences, of Interest to All Classes of Men". Book by Abram N. Coleman, p. 233, 1903.

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• To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

  Aleister Crowley

  Reading, Discipline, Mind

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 23, 1969.

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• No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Believe, Iron

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• When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Teaching, Silence, Statistics

  'Lacon' (1820) vol. 1, no. 183

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• Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

  Paul Coffey

  Life, Sports, Perseverance

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• Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.

  Amy Chua

  School, Kids, Self

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