self-discipline

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
25fe2ce	The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others - not yourself - first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better?	leadership self-discipline	John C. Maxwell
d476bea	Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.	leadership example exhortation self-discipline	Augustine of Hippo
cea08c0	A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.	self-discipline procrastination	George Eliot
a723136	It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.	emotion self-discipline frustration despair self-control	John Howard Griffin
0c684d8	"What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance."	thought-life self-discipline	Frank Herbert
1dc055b	I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.	emotion discipleship self-discipline	Ta-Nehisi Coates
1e88c75	I am superior to you only in one point: I'm awake, whereas you are only half awake, or completely asleep sometimes. I call a man awake who knows in his conscious reason his innermost unreasonable force, drives, and weaknesses and knows how to deal with them.	self-discipline	Hermann Hesse
adc3605	"Mary never made it to the board meeting. Cunning Elizabeth simply arranged for her cousin's tennis instructor to "delay" her for an hour or two. The man was evidently a superb athlete, though it was entirely Mary's fault that she fell asleep afterwards. Elizabeth took control of the company that very afternoon, by a vote of six to one, while a sated Mary slept. And the silly girl never knew what hit her."	self-discipline	Barbara Taylor Bradford
0241d34	Quick words did not always mean a quick mind.	self-discipline impatience	Jeff Shaara
75b1ab4	Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.	self-discipline	Edith Hamilton
6e230cc	If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.	leadership servant-leadership self-discipline humility	John Howard Griffin
9911f03	"Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin"	self-indulgence self-discipline	Barbara W. Tuchman
a8d6ca2	The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. - Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed	silence self-discipline focus	Barbara W. Tuchman
e49d127	Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.	emotions-communication self-discipline	Robert A. Heinlein
a1d4cad	Just because some children were more effective than others at distracting themselves from [the marshmallow in the famous Marshmallow Test] doesn't mean this capacity was for the impressive results found ten years later. Instead, both of these things may have been due to something about their home environment. If that's true, there's no reason to believe that enhancing children's ability to defer gratification would be beneficial: It was just a marker, not a cause. By way of analogy, teenagers who visit ski resorts over winter break probably have a superior record of being admitted to the Ivy League. Should we therefore hire consultants to teach low-income children how to ski in order to improve the odds that colleges will accept them?	self-discipline self-control	Alfie Kohn
3fe5123	In the heir's world, where everything was available, the unattainable had a wild allure.	thought-wife spiritual-warfare self-discipline materialism	Geraldine Brooks
d9c77b1	"I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon"	self-discipline	Barbara W. Tuchman
d3e7769	Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ.	leadership confidence discipleship self-discipline	Beth Moore
d453059	He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.	seasoning statecraft self-discipline maturation	Geraldine Brooks
5d8247c	"Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better." --	leadership education self-discipline maturation	Rebecca Goldstein

25fe2ce

The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others - not yourself - first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better?

leadership self-discipline

John C. Maxwell

d476bea

Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.

leadership example exhortation self-discipline

Augustine of Hippo

cea08c0

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

self-discipline procrastination

George Eliot

a723136

It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.

emotion self-discipline frustration despair self-control

John Howard Griffin

0c684d8

"What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance."

thought-life self-discipline

Frank Herbert

1dc055b

I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.

emotion discipleship self-discipline

Ta-Nehisi Coates

1e88c75

I am superior to you only in one point: I'm awake, whereas you are only half awake, or completely asleep sometimes. I call a man awake who knows in his conscious reason his innermost unreasonable force, drives, and weaknesses and knows how to deal with them.

self-discipline

Hermann Hesse

adc3605

"Mary never made it to the board meeting. Cunning Elizabeth simply arranged for her cousin's tennis instructor to "delay" her for an hour or two. The man was evidently a superb athlete, though it was entirely Mary's fault that she fell asleep afterwards. Elizabeth took control of the company that very afternoon, by a vote of six to one, while a sated Mary slept. And the silly girl never knew what hit her."

self-discipline

Barbara Taylor Bradford

0241d34

Quick words did not always mean a quick mind.

self-discipline impatience

Jeff Shaara

75b1ab4

Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

self-discipline

Edith Hamilton

6e230cc

If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.

leadership servant-leadership self-discipline humility

John Howard Griffin

9911f03

"Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin"

self-indulgence self-discipline

Barbara W. Tuchman

a8d6ca2

The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. - Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed

silence self-discipline focus

Barbara W. Tuchman

e49d127

Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.

emotions-communication self-discipline

Robert A. Heinlein

a1d4cad

Just because some children were more effective than others at distracting themselves from [the marshmallow in the famous Marshmallow Test] doesn't mean this capacity was for the impressive results found ten years later. Instead, both of these things may have been due to something about their home environment. If that's true, there's no reason to believe that enhancing children's ability to defer gratification would be beneficial: It was just a marker, not a cause. By way of analogy, teenagers who visit ski resorts over winter break probably have a superior record of being admitted to the Ivy League. Should we therefore hire consultants to teach low-income children how to ski in order to improve the odds that colleges will accept them?

self-discipline self-control

Alfie Kohn

3fe5123

In the heir's world, where everything was available, the unattainable had a wild allure.

thought-wife spiritual-warfare self-discipline materialism

Geraldine  Brooks

d9c77b1

"I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon"

self-discipline

Barbara W. Tuchman

d3e7769

Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ.

leadership confidence discipleship self-discipline

Beth Moore

d453059

He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

seasoning statecraft self-discipline maturation

Geraldine  Brooks

5d8247c

"Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better." --

leadership education self-discipline maturation

Rebecca Goldstein