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Self discipline means deliberately aligning our energy with our values and priorities. Through mental practice we focus in on a task before us and lets other temptations and distractions pass us by.


Self-discipline asks that we endure frustration, disappointment, and pain in the service of a higher goal. It means being willing to push ourselves to the limits of our will and endurance if that is what is needed for success.


Self-discipline need not be harsh; it can take the form of a quiet resolve or determination that then directs our choices. It is exacting, but is rarely served by our being self-critical or self-denigrating. Self-discipline allows us to make use of whatever power and capabilities have been given us, to be all that we can in the service of our dreams.

Self-Discipline

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Aspiration - Commitment - Determination - Action - Self-Discipline - Virtue
You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

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Cheerfulness - Discernment - Enthusiasm - Gratitude - Humor - Self-Discipline
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." — Herm Albright

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Forbearance - Grace - Insight - Love - Self-Discipline - Harmony
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.

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The Strength Of Love
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Contribution #3740


Insight - Self-Discipline
Fundamentally, what everyone needs is mental strength and confidence, to manage the mind, just as we manage the outside world.

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Growth - Insight - Self-Discipline
Self Realization is finding That which is beyond even superconsciousness itself, beyond the mind--timeless, causeless, spaceless.


Devotion - Love - Self-Discipline
You don’t discipline yourself to attain the feeling of love. You attain the feeling of love and then you want to discipline yourself because you love the discipline, because it brings more love.

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Gurudeva Weekly Calendar
http://www.minimela.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=69_70&products_id=477
Contribution #3446


Prudence - Discernment - Intention - Self-Discipline
We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us.

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MacRumors.com
Eric Slivka
"Tim Cook's View of the Apple Philosophy"
http://www.macrumors.com/2009/01/22/tim-cooks-view-of-the-apple-philosophy/
Viewed on August 5, 2009
Contribution #3435


Ethics - Integrity - Responsibility - Self-Discipline - Citizenship - Justice
Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

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Rolling Stone The Great American Bubble Machine
Volume: 1082-1083
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/28816321/the_great_american_bubble_machine
Contribution #3375


Assertiveness - Self-Discipline - Strength
That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

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ORWELL: THE AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY
by Michael Sheldon
Page Chapter Seventeen, pages 355 - 358
http://
Contribution #3356


Forbearance - Self-Discipline
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson: to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power...

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Aspiration - Commitment - Determination - Knowledge - Self-Discipline
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. And see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

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Aspiration - Courage - Determination - Endurance - Action - Self-Discipline
On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of victory, sat down to rest - and there resting, died.

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Puzzles and Essays from "The Exchange" by Charles R. Anderson
Contribution #2890


Wonder - Self-Discipline
"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

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A Year With Rumi
by Coleman Barks
Page p. 270
Published by Harper , San Francisco, CA , 2006
http://www.amazon.com
Contribution #2834


Orderliness - Self-Discipline
Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

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Source type: Sacred Text
Talmud
http://
Contribution #2629


Self-Discipline - Simplicity
We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

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Self-Discipline
If you are given to indulging yourself with the attitude "Oh, to hell with it!" then do not marvel when you awake one day with everything having gone to hell.

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Contribution #2518


Self-Discipline
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

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Self-Discipline
Those who make channels for water control the waters; makers of arrows make the arrows straight; carpenters control their timber, and the holy control their souls.

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Source type: Sacred Text
The Dhammapada
10
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Contribution #2231


Insight - Moderation - Self-Discipline
Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.

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Source type: Book
The Voice of the Master
by trans. Anthony R. Ferris
Page 56
Published by Citadel Press , New York , 1958
http://
Contribution #2137


Judgment - Self-Discipline - Truth-seeking
Don't believe everything you think.

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Cleanliness - Mindfulness - Self-Discipline - Stewardship
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

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Self-Discipline
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies, for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

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Self-Discipline
Some people regard discipline as a chore.  For me, it's a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

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Endurance - Self-Discipline
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

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Mahatma Ghandi
"Proverb Zone"
http://www.proverb.taiwanonline.org/display.php?alphabet=Y&row=0
Viewed on June 10, 2008
Contribution #1472


Ethics - Self-Discipline
If we can look upon our work not for self-benefit,
but as a means to benefit society,
we will be practicing appreciation and patience in our daily lives.

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Heart of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications , Temple City, CA , 2003
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Contribution #1447


Devotion - Faith - Self-Discipline
Pray as if everything depended upon God; work as if everything depended upon you.

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1889-1967
"The Quotations Page"
http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/God/
Viewed on May 10, 2008
Contribution #1319


Self-Discipline
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

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Self-Discipline - Virtue
Virtues are acquired through endeavor,
Which rests wholly upon yourself.
So, to praise others for their virtues
can but encourage one's own efforts.

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Integrity - Self-Discipline - Virtue
The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.

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Mindfulness - Self-Discipline - Serenity - Focus
When the senses are stalled, when the mind is at rest, when the intellect wavers not-- that, say the wise, is the highest state.  This calm of the senses and the mind has been defined as yoga.  One who attains it is freed from delusion. 

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Prudence - Mindfulness - Self-Discipline - Strength
The mind acts like an enemy for those who do not control it.

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Source type: Sacred Text
Bhagavad Gita
http://
Contribution #766


Aspiration - Assertiveness - Idealism - Self-Discipline
To live is to choose. But to choose, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go, and why you want to get there

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Acceptance - Assertiveness - Patience - Self-Discipline
Never argue, repeat your assertion.

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Acceptance - Growth - Self-Discipline
Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

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Acceptance - Diligence - Knowledge - Self-Discipline
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

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Dalai Lama
Viewed on April 3, 2008
Contribution #321