Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
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Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.
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By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
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Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline.
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What was the necessity for the entire procedure of ritual slaughter? For the sake of self-discipline. It is far more appropriate for man not to eat meat; only if he has a strong desire for meat does the Torah permit it, and even this only after the trouble and inconvenience necessary to satisfy his desire. Perhaps because of the bother and annoyance of the whole procedure, he will be restrained from such a strong and uncontrollable desire for meat.
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By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character
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Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude -- your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.
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2 Timothy 1:7:
For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.
(NIV)
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control.
(AMP)
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
(KJV)
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What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are. What we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
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With self-discipline most anything is possible.
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Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are required.
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Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first.
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