0 the ability to make yourself do things you know you should do even when you do not want to: --
1 the ability to make yourself do things when you should, even if you do not want to do them: --
2 → discipline noun --
He wanted 'the actions of the political press to correspond with the situation and demands of society' and to ensure this by 'self-discipline by our own free will'.
Fulfilling one's true potential, once identified, requires setting appropriate goals and exerting the self-discipline to accomplish them.
The position of the texts is that an individual's conduct and policy at court presupposed and sprang from 'self-policy' or self-discipline.
The second is to articulate an ethos of altruistic service and professional self-discipline.
For he expected similar control and self-discipline from them.
Foucault has read disciplinary practices in pre-bourgeois societies as part of regimes of self-discipline connected with the formation of ethical subjecthood and agency.
It is a subject which lends itself to extravagant presentation, but the authors show excellent self-discipline and eschew any such tendency.
If she had attempted to exercise self-discipline to keep awake, she would have been drugged.
