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“It is essential... that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of one's own will; that it is felt as pleasant, and that one slowly accustoms oneself to a kind of behaviour which one would eventually miss, if one stopped practising it.”

Ifs Should Kind Felt Missing Expression Discipline Essentials Oneself Pleasant Behaviour

Author:Erich Fromm

“The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.”

Artist Discipline Lifetime Oneself Intimate Nerves Strict Sensitivity

Book:Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

“While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding this simple fact is the great error into which parents and educators fall when they rely on these negative means of correction. The only effective discipline is self-discipline, motivated by the inner desire to act meritoriously in order to do well in one's own eyes, according to one's own values, so that one may feel good about oneself may "have a good conscience.”

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

Source: Insecurity of Freedom

“Honesty comes only with sound health, physically and psychologically, and an honest mind cannot be separated from the most genuine acknowledgment of expression. It should be recognized that pure perfection is unobtainable. Therefore, the realization that one's irrevocable faults and deficiencies must be faced guides us toward the first step of learning. We must each accept any situation as it actually is, with dignity. In that fine balance of acceptance of self and the mission to better oneself, compassion, humility, and discipline are nurtured.”

“To do is hard, but to teach is still harder. Do not teach only to teach. Teach to improve the pupil. To be a teacher requires tremendous, vigorous discipline on oneself. We are teachers because somebody demands it from us. But the teacher should first rub his own self, and teach afterwards”

Should Firsts Stills Self Hard Teach Teacher Discipline Demand Harder Oneself Pupils Vigorous

Author:B.K.S. Iyengar

“I think it's a very stark marker of what kind of president we have that, from all available evidence, Donald Trump has not read a book, as an adult. This is not someone who sits down in the evening to consider the latest bestseller, let alone Tolstoy - but who is very very active on this medium that requires no discipline and no attention and no empathy. It is all about retweeting praise of oneself or very quickly or poorly considered, ill-typed, misspelled diatribes against other people.”

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Author:Ben H. Winters

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”

Life Inspirational Art Happiness Artist Creativity Greater Self Love Discipline Integrity Oneself Mastery Self Mastery

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.”

Whole Problem Happiness Difficult Sound Simple Moral Acceptance Discipline Essence Oneself Outlook Simple Things Life Happiness Epitome Actual Life

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.”

Want Doe Self Discipline Oneself Contrary Being Yourself Routine

Book:The House by the Sea: A Journal

Source: The House by the Sea: A Journal

“Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.”

Moments Joy Suffering Values Felt Pleasure Effort Sacrifice Discipline Mark Oneself Profit Triumph Peculiar Amusement Deprived Indefinable

Author:Alexis Carrel