self-disciplined

self-discipline | American Dictionary

self-discipline
noun[ U ]
us/ˌselfˈdɪs·ə·plɪn/
the ability to make yourself do things when you should, even if you do not want to do them:
He lacked self-discipline and seemed unable to finish anything.

self-discipline | Business English

self-discipline
noun[ U ]
uk /ˌselfˈdɪsɪplɪn/us
→ disciplinenoun

Examples of self-discipline

self-discipline
As a result, they, like the "subjects" of the panopticon, assumed responsibility for self-discipline due to the highly visible, although very often unverifiable, political monitoring.
It is constituted by the hermeneutics of suspicion and it sustains it at the same time, thus embracing the cause of self-discipline.
The techniques of self-discipline may have been more effective in science than in politics.
Scholars would be regularly caricatured as either incapable of self-discipline and abstraction or excessively absorbed in their studies to the detriment of their social duties.
His instruction on disciplining was simply self-discipline, to 'be gentlemen'.
In other words, both self-discipline and self-supervision are interpretive acts; it is a way of practicing the modern care for oneself: the suspicion of oneself.
The first is that one must develop the self-discipline to use it.
It is a subject which lends itself to extravagant presentation, but the authors show excellent self-discipline and eschew any such tendency.
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.
For he expected similar control and self-discipline from them.
The second is to articulate an ethos of altruistic service and professional self-discipline.
The position of the texts is that an individual's conduct and policy at court presupposed and sprang from 'self-policy' or self-discipline.
Fulfilling one's true potential, once identified, requires setting appropriate goals and exerting the self-discipline to accomplish them.
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'.
The obligation to make the payments had become an act of self-discipline on the part of the government, insuring that funds were available for its own developmental priorities.
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