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• Self-discipline leads to higher spiritual states only if practiced with under- standing. The clearer the goal, the greater the result.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Spiritual, Self, Discipline

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• Championships are mythical. The real champions are those who live through what they are taught in their homes and churches. The attitude that 'We've got to win' in sports must be changed. Teach your youngsters, who are the future hope of America, the importance of love, respect, dedication, determination, self-sacrifice, self-discipline and good attitude. That's the road up the ladder to the championships.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Determination, Attitude

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• Those who don't have a life filled with luxury may have a home filled with compassion, based on their choice to be content and to practice self-discipline. Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Home, Compassion, Self

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.

  Robert Blair

  Real, Heart, Knowledge

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• How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Procrastination, Commitment, Self

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• There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Reality, Men

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• When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the conscious mind are not enough by themselves to handle the problem. It is like a breaker switch in your brain is simply flipped. Anybody who has had this kind of a problem knows that it doesn't matter how intelligent you are. Sigmund Freud said, "Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis."

  Marianne Williamson

  Intelligent, Self, Discipline

  Interview with John Robbins, foodrevolution.org. January 1, 2013.

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• If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

  Paul Harvey

  Government, Self, Discipline

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• By "moral discipline," I mean self-discipline based on moral standards. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. It rejects the self-absorbed life in favor of developing character worthy of respect and true greatness through Christlike service.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Character, Mean, Exercise

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• Life is a unique combination of "want to" and "how to" and we need to give equal attention to both.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Unique

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 06, 2015

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• Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you don't want to do it.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Self, Discipline, Want

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• Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

  Charles Duhigg

  Self, Discipline, Intellectual

  "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business". Book by Charles Duhigg, www.businessinsider.com. February 28, 2012.

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• Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.

  Steve Jobs

  Ideas, Discipline, Trying

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• Be strong-be strong in the discipline of self. How many otherwise good men squander their strength and dissipate their will and literally destroy their lives because they have not the power of self-discipline.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Strong, Men, Self

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• It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.

  Hans Hofmann

  Spiritual, Art, Self

  "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. "Painting and Culture", p. 56, 1948.

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• To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. As part of the universal city that is the universe, human beings have a duty of care to all fellow humans. The person who followed these precepts would achieve happiness.

  Epictetus

  Fate, Self, Cities

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• When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

  Dalai Lama

  Karma, Buddhist, Acceptance

  "Be Happy the Dalai Lama Way" by Corine Gatti, www.beliefnet.com.

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• A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Heart, Self, Discipline

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• ... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real. You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. Nor is semantics a device for establishing that everyone except the speaker and his friends is speaking nonsense

  Alfred Tarski

  Real, Illusions Of Grandeur, Class

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• Real peace comes only to those who control the body and mind with self-discipline.

  Vishnudevananda Saraswati

  Peace, Real, Self

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• I learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.

  James Black

  Dream, Science, Discipline

  "Sir James Black obituary" by Pearce Wright, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2010.

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• If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter.

  Russell Banks

  Discipline, Attention, Pals

  Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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• Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.

  Jahangir Khan

  Hard Work, Discipline, Difficult

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• If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Discipline, Trying

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