Self Discipline Quotes - Page 14

• Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Karma

  'Adam Bede' (1859) ch. 29

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• Do not consider painful what is good for you.

  Euripides

  Life, Uplifting, Spiritual

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Feb 04, 2017

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• With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Worthwhile Things, Discipline, Selfless

  Address to the officers and men of the 5th Heavy Ack Ack and 6th Light Ack Ack Regiments in Malir, Karachi, February 21, 1948.

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• Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

  Jackie Chan

  Change, Martial Arts, Circumstances

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• Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Motivational, Winning

  Twitter post from Jan 01, 2015

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• Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Hard Work, Commitment, Discipline

  "Haile Gebrselassie shares secrets of his success". Interview with Susannah Palk, www.cnn.com. April 15, 2011.

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• Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

  Michel Foucault

  Jail, Discipline, Prison

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• Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?

  Laurence J. Peter

  Kindness, Integrity, Boys

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• Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhism, Self, Discipline

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• The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Lying, Commitment

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.17, Beacon Press

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• No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Motivational, Horse

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2008). “Answers to Real Problems: Harry Emerson Fosdick Speaks to Our Time: Selected Sermons of Harry Emerson Fosdick”, p.160, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Respect, Self, Order

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• Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Peace, Kings

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• The virtues prized in free countries are honesty, self-discipline, a sense of responsibility to one's family, a sense of loyalty to one's employer and staff, and a pride in the quality of one's work. And these virtues only flourish in a climate of freedom.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Loyalty, Country, Honesty

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• Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Respect, Inspirational Life, Warrior

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.44, Macmillan

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• With the full realization that, in order to earn for ourselves any place in the sun, we must with perseverance and self-discipline work collectively for the full first-class citizenship participation of Minorities everywhere, including ourselves.

  Harry Hay

  Perseverance, Class, Self

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• Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.

  Russell Kirk

  Kings, Men, Self

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• Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits, organised in some part according to social conventions, but also formed by personal inclinations and dispositions. Regimes are of central importance to self-identity precisely because they connect habits with aspects of the visible appearance of the body.

  Anthony Giddens

  Self, Discipline, Identity

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• Keep in mind the challenging fact that your aim is not to get ahead of others, but to surpass yourself; to begin today to be the person you want to be.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Discipline, Challenges, Mind

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• The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

  Tryon Edwards

  Education, Teacher, Learning

  " A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 134), 1891.

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• Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

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• Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Moving, Inspiration

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• I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.

  Lee Iacocca

  Determination, Fall, Hard Work

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• Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

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