Self Discipline Quotes - Page 9

• Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Self, Calm Mind

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• Physically you are a human being, but mentally you are incomplete. Given that we have this physical human form, we must safeguard our mental capacity for judgment. For that, we cannot take out insurance; the insurance company is within: self-discipline, self-awareness, and a clear realization of the disadvantages of anger and the positive effects of kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Self, Discipline

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.9, Penguin Books India

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• It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Struggle, Buddhism

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• This planet is an exquisitely arranged and interconnected system. What's controlled in one place is going to have consequences in another place. Our job as gardeners is to try and figure this out no matter how small our allotted space might be. Discipline has to be the watchword for our controlling hands. It means not gardening without thinking of the garden as a habitat: for mice, for squirrels, for bees and wasps. For other living creatures beyond ourselves.

  Marjorie Harris

  Life, Jobs, Mean

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• It's all about self-discipline. Like, self-obsession is connected completely with self-loathing, and it's the same with, if you've got a weight problem. It's all about... finding some worth in yourself, knowing that you've got the discipline to do it, and knowing that other people maybe can't do it. And it's also, I think, really connected to the fact that you almost feel, like, silent, you have no voice, you're mute, there's just no, you've got no option. Even if you could express yourself nobody would listen anyway. Things that go on inside you, there's no other way to get rid of them.

  Richey Edwards

  Self Harm, Thinking, Knowing

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• Integrity is not a given factor in everyone's life. It is a result of self-discipline, inner trust, and a decision to be relentlessly honest in all situations in our lives.

  John C. Maxwell

  Integrity, Self, Discipline

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.38, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You are truly your own hero in running. It is up to you to have the responsibility and self-discipline to get the job done.

  Adam Goucher

  Running, Jobs, Hero

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• We can become the masters of our own destinies by practicing self-discipline and by setting worthy goals that will lead to higher ground so that we can become what our heavenly father wants us to become.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Inspirational, Happy, Spiritual

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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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• He that cannot obey, cannot command.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Relationship, Leadership, Discipline

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Wish I am free from barriers when I die, and Buddha will welcome me from far away.

  Gautama Buddha

  Faith, Determination, Wish

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• No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Discipline, Defeated

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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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• 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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• Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

  Bertrand Russell

  Educational, Thinking, Play

  Bertrand Russell (1987). “Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage”

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• But look within and watch the stuff coming up-restlessness, anxiety, impatience, pain-just watch it come up and don't get involved. Much to your surprise, it will simply go away. It rises, it passes away. As simple as that. There is another word for self-discipline. It is patience.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Pain, Simple, Self

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling you that you're wrong. But self-discipline is different. It's the skill of seeing through the hollow shouting of your own impulses and piercing their secret.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Self, Skills, Discipline

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• They have no power over you. It's all a show, a deception. Your urges scream and bluster at you; they cajole; they coax; they threaten; but they really carry no stick at all. You give in out of habit. You give in because you never really bother to look beyond the threat. It is all empty back there. There is only one way to learn this lesson, though. The words on this page won't do it.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Discipline, Giving, Over You

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Discipline, Over You, Self Control

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• Perseverance is always the way to go. You have to stay mentally prepared. You have to make sure you have some self discipline in order to recover from injuries.

  Amar'e Stoudemire

  Perseverance, Self, Order

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• I don't think we've got a discipline problem. It's the players who are thick who are causing the problems

  Neil Warnock

  Player, Thinking, Discipline

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• ...Competitive Skaters must be prepared for a lot of work, challenges, self-discipline, and motivation. The desire must be there, but more importantly, your love for the sport.

  Oksana Baiul

  Sports, Motivation, Self

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• Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Self, Discipline

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2007). “God Talks With Arjuna”, p.959, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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