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“The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.”

Belief Energy Discipline Selfish Generosity Unhappiness Selfless Misguided

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of-to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there's nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.”

Knows Believe Ends Hard Light Action Belief Waiting My Own Walks Emotion Responsibility Color Discipline Evidence Seasons Sight Winter Insight Absence My Time Spite Inaction Bud Birdsong

Author:Mark Buchanan

“My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing. I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.”

Self Whole Law Individual Belief Theory Discipline Fundamentals Sake Improvement Self Control Social Change Ordinances

Author:Ida Tarbell

“Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.”

Self Belief Ability Discipline Increase Self Discipline Belief In Yourself

Book:The Gift of Self-Confidence

Source: The Gift of Self-Confidence

“Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.”

“…being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority, no matter how often one might be tempted. To think that a personal God had made the world was to yield to a demonic and superstitious and destructive belief.”

Thinking World Made Ideas Matter Might Belief Discipline Authority Catholic Atheist Destructive Yield Tempted Superstitious Demonic

Book:Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession

Source: Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession

“The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.”

“If you have self-respect, you will take satisfaction in being well groomed and will not allow yourself to perform shabbily. You will continue to work toward high standards and goals to serve others, to continue and to practice self-discipline. You will not compromise your standards or beliefs.”

Ifs Wells Self Belief Goal Practice Discipline Standards Satisfaction Compromise Self Respect Self Discipline High Standards

Author:Marvin J. Ashton

“My belief is that if you grapple with the big changes until you really get them and if you develop an internal compass to steer your marketing and communications, you will be working in a discipline that is more exciting, more intellectually rich, more delightfully complex and ultimately more rewarding than it has ever been.”

Ifs Bigs Belief Business Rich Communication Discipline Exciting Complexes Marketing Internals Compass Steers Big Changes

Author:James Murdoch

“The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.”

Important Motivational Father Winning Belief Loss Business Team Ought Discipline Important Things Credit

Author:Philip Caldwell

“We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are separated from nature and life, the intellectual and moral discipline made use of to impose ready-made ideas upon them, beliefs which deprave and annihilate natural bent.”

“Bandara was not an easy place to return to: it could hide from the common worlds whose periphery it inhabited. But Bandara never had, in all its years, completely disappeared.”

World Years Belief Easy Common Return Discipline Perfection Periphery

Book:Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko

Source: Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko

“[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions.”

Belief Virtue Discipline Glory Ethics Tradition Defense Observation Mechanism Questioning Refusal Hens Investigators Defense Mechanisms

Book:Ideology and utopia: an introduction to the sociology of knowledge

Source: Ideology and utopia: an introduction to the sociology of knowledge