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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
self-discipline
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I don't know if I've enough self-discipline to work full-time and go to night school.
▪ Taking part in plays teaches kids focus and self-discipline.
▪ We try to teach the children self-reliance and self-discipline.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And, in part, they are not successful because they lack the self-discipline to stay on task.
▪ Both demonstrated self-discipline by keeping their answers within the time allowed under debate rules negotiated by the rival campaigns.
▪ Hence they have too little self-discipline, too little sense of the appropriate.
▪ His self-discipline had been forged and tempered by years of training.
▪ Ideally, it promotes self-discipline, controlled aggression and individual sacrifice in the interest of the team.
▪ If there is not some self-discipline, that is exactly what happens.
▪ Obviously knowledge as well as self-discipline is necessary to prevent accidents and maintain a safe environment.
▪ They lacked the academic habits and the self-discipline of some of the others; their relative fluency masked deeper problems.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self-discipline

Self-discipline \Self`-dis"ci*pline\, n. Correction or government of one's self for the sake of improvement.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
self-discipline

also self discipline, 1796, from self- + discipline (n.). Related: Self-disciplined.

Wiktionary
self-discipline

n. control of oneself, willpower.

WordNet
self-discipline

  1. n. the trait of practicing self discipline [syn: self-denial]

  2. the act of denying yourself; controlling your impulses [syn: self-denial, self-control]

Usage examples of "self-discipline".

He'd rather have watched a back-to-back rerun of Carin Coldae classics, but felt he should exercise self-discipline.

Seething though she was in unexpressed frustration, a fragment of her mind laughed at the foolishness of maintaining self-discipline in front of the bilateral humans.

We try to turn out graduate engineers imbued with the same loyalty, the same iron self-discipline, and determination to perform their duty to the community at any cost, that Annapolis and West Point and Goddard are so successful in inculcating in their graduates.

Master Robinton and Lord Groghe wouldn't be pleased by a second alarm incited by her lack of self-discipline.

Deeth buckled down, subjected himself to an intense self-discipline, did not let up till the Norbon had recovered from the Amon-Ra disaster.

He had crowned his military career the day that be had seized on the question period following an orientation lecture to hold forth on the utter uselessness of force and violence under any circumstances (with some side continents on the desirability of reducing surplus population through cannibalism) and had offered himself as a test animal for any weapon of any nature to prove to them that force was not only unnecessary but literally impossible when attempted against a self-disciplined person.

He had crowned his military career the day that be had seized on the question period following an orientation lecture to hold forth on the utter uselessness of force and violence under any circumstances (with some side comments on the desirability of reducing surplus population through cannibalism) and had offered himself as a test animal for any weapon of any nature to prove to them that force was not only unnecessary but literally impossible when attempted against a self-disciplined person.

The tension building in the courtyard would have sickened her, and she wanted to save back her strength and self-discipline for as long as she could, in the event that she had to intervene.

It signaled unexpected new depths of self-discipline in the volatile pirate.

But I believe that the patient is more intelligent, and much stricter in its religious self-discipline, than the Parents realize.