Self Discipline Quotes - Page 19

• I learned that hard work and self-discipline can overcome many obstacles.

  Samuel Alito

  Hard Work, Self, Discipline

  "An Interview With Justice Samuel Alito on Immigration, His Mentors and Advice for a Successful Life". Interview with Madaline Donnelly, dailysignal.com. November 09, 2014.

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• I have seen so much obstructed potential among people who lack personal discipline, who just slough it off, whatever it is, and who think that nothing matters very much. I want my daughter to have what I think of as a capacity for self-discipline. Not the sort of self-discipline that diminishes her own wild passions, but that makes it safer for her to own those wild passions.

  Marianne Williamson

  Daughter, Passion, Thinking

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I'm a person who's trying to live within divine law, to the best and it's very hard because it's self-discipline, because the more you realise, the more you've got to get yourself straight, so it's hard, you know. I'm trying and there are a lot of people who are trying, even people who are not conscious that they are doing it, but they are really doing things for the good, or just to be happy or whatever.

  George Harrison

  Self, Law, Discipline

  Source: www.fifthestate.org

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• Children are inspiring because they are open and a lot more intelligent than grown ups. They also have contagious playfulness and joy. For me as an artist the challenge of having a child is having to think ahead a lot more. Which in a way is good, since I sometimes lack self-discipline.

  Olof Arnalds

  Children, Thinking, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The most self-disciplined people in the world aren't born with it, but at one point they start to think differently about self discipline. Easy, short-term choices lead to different long-term consequences. Difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences. What we thought was the easy way led to a much more difficult life. I think that motivation is sort of like a unicorn that people chance like a magic pill that will make them suddenly want to work hard. It's not out there.

  Rory Vaden

  Motivation, Hard Work, Thinking

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• Self-respect is the root of discipline

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Self, Roots, Discipline

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• Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Heart, Self

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• Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Self, Class, Discipline

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• If you serve a mission faithfully and well, you will be a better husband, you will be a better father, you will be a better student, a better worker in your chosen vocation. Love is of the essence of this missionary work. Selflessness is of its very nature. Self-discipline is its requirement. Prayer opens its reservoir of power.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Prayer, Husband, Father

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• It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write one sentence at a time, to live every day as if it were my last and judge it in those terms, often badly, not because it lacked grand gesture or grand passion but because it failed in the daily virtues of self-discipline, kindness, and laughter. It is love, very ordinary, human love, and not fear, which is the good teacher and the wisest judge.

  Jane Rule

  Love, Teacher, Kindness

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• Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Self, Discipline

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• Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come into being. It is only then that there can be bliss, that there can be creative action.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Reality, Self

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.50, Rajpal & Sons

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• Karate-do may be referred to as the conflict within yourself, or a life-long marathon which can be won only through self-discipline, hard training, and your own creative efforts.

  Shoshin Nagamine

  Self, Discipline, Long

  Shoshin Nagamine (2011). “Essence of Okinawan Karate-Do”, p.45, Tuttle Publishing

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• Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be.

  Guru Nanak

  Ocean, Past, Self

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• Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.

  John Wooden

  Self, Practice, Discipline

  John Wooden, Jay Carty (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.34, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Not only does inspiration from the Lord compensate for want of facts; it also induces men by self-discipline, to conform in their personal conduct and in their dealings one with another to the highest standards they know. In other words, it gives men the capacity which distinguishes wisdom from knowledge.

  Marion G. Romney

  Wisdom, Inspiration, Men

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• An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.

  Mark Driscoll

  Men, Animal, Self

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• For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

  Peter Kreeft

  Wise, Men, Reality

  Peter Kreeft (1992). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.22, Ignatius Press

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• If there is a defining aspect of UNC women's soccer, and its success, it is what we call the competitive cauldron. It is the pinnacle of our program. The great part about the cauldron is that it fosters a quality we can all possess. It isn't a talent we are born with. Competitive drive is not governed by innate ability, but by self-discipline and desire

  Anson Dorrance

  Soccer, Volleyball, Self

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• Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed.

  Rumi

  Pain, Suffering, Desire

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• If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself...self-d iscipline.

  Harry S. Truman

  Winning, Self, Victory

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• There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.

  Tom Peters

  Self Improvement, Improvement, Insignificant

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• Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating
  negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. At least we will be able to prevent the advent of negative conduct dominated by negative emotion. That is 'shila', or moral ethics. Once we develop this by familiarizing ourselves with it, along with mindfulness and conscientiousness, eventually that pattern and way of life will become a part of our own life.

  Dalai Lama

  Self, Discipline, Patterns

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• The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by turning from the nineteenth-century characteristics just mentioned (materialism, selfishness, false values, hypocrisy, and secret vices) and going back to other characteristics that our Western Society has always regarded as virtues: generosity, compassion, cooperation, rationality, and foresight, and finding a increased role in human life for love, spirituality, charity, and self discipline.

  Carroll Quigley

  War, Compassion, Men

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• A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.

  John Foster

  Men, Discipline, Decision

  John Foster (1826). “Essays, in a Series of Letters, on the Following Subjects: On Man's Writing Memoirs of Himself. On Decision of Character. On the Application of the Epithet Romantic. On Some of the Causes by which Evangelical Religion Has Been Rendered Less Acceptable to Persons of Cultivated Taste”, p.67

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