Self-discipline

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One quality that most philosophers, teachers, and experts agree on is the importance of self-
discipline. Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses. Discipline is the key to
a great life and, without it, no lasting success is possible.

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The most important success principle of all was stated by Elbert Hubbard. He said "Self-
discipline is the ability to do what should do, when you do it, whether you feel like it or not"

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Your ability to think, plan, and work hard in the short term and to discipline yourself to do what is
right and necessary before you do what is fun and easy is the key to creating a wonderful future
for yourself.

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Herbert Grey found that successful people are more concerned with “pleasing results”. Also,
successful happy people are more concerned with the positive, long-term consequences of their
behaviors.

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You can develop the habit of self-discipline. The regular practice of disciplining yourself to do
what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not becomes stronger and
stronger as you practice it. You refuse to make excuses.

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The more you practice self-mastery and self-control, the more you like yourself. The more you
discipline yourself, the greater is your sense of self-respect and personal pride. You see
yourself and think about yourself in a positive way and feel happier.

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There is a premium on knowledge and skill. The more knowledge you and the greater skill you
apply, the more competent and valuable you become. As you get better at what you do, your
income-earning ability increases like compound interest.

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Success is possible only when you can overcome the natural tendency to cut corners and take
the easy way. Lasting success is possible only when you can discipline yourself to work hard
and smart for a long , long time.

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H. L. Hunt said, “ There are only three requirements for success. First, decide exactly what it is
you want for success. Second, determine the price that you are going to have to pay to get the
things you want. Third, resolve to pay the price.”

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Knowledge and skill are the keys to the twenty-first century. You can learn anything you need to
learn to achieve any goal you set for yourself. Never stop learning and growing. Becoming the
best person you can possibly be requires the application of self-discipline throughout your life.

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You have to make a firm, unequivocal decision that you are going to pay any price and go any
distance in order to achieve the goals you have set for yourself. You have to make that decision
and then burn your mental bridges behind you.

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By working on yourself a little bit each day; learning new skills, getting better at your key tasks,
setting priorities, and focusing on higher-value activities, you become more productive over the
course of an entire year.

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Napoleon Hill said, “ Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.“ Persistence is
self discipline in action. The primary reason for success is persistence, and, likewise, the
primary reason for failure is lack of persistence, quitting too soon.

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Resilience in the face of unexpected reversals is vital to long-term success. It is not how far you
fall that counts, but rather how high you bounce. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

The Power of Self-Discipline

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Normal Vincent Peale used to say, “When God wants to send you a gift, he wraps it up in a
problem. The bigger the gift that God wants to send you, the bigger the problem he wraps it up
in.”

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To remain optimistic, look for the good in every situation. When you look for something good,
you will always find something good. While you’re looking for something good, you will
automatically become positive, optimistic, and back in full control.

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Every setback you face contains one or more lessons that have been sent to you to help you be
more successful in the future. Failures feel sorry for themselves when things go wrong, whereas
successful people look for the valuable lesson they can learn that will help them in the future.

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In life, it doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is how many
times you get back up. If you continue to get back up and press onward, you must eventually
reach your goal.

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Diligent, disciplined, focused work will enable you to consistently and predictably get more done,
get paid more, and get promoted faster throughout your career than the average person.

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Leadership and self-discipline go hand in hand. It is not possible to imagine an effective leader
who lacks self-discipline, willpower, self-control, and self-mastery. The overarching
characteristic of a leader is that he is in complete control of himself and of every situation.

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You become a leader when you begin to think, act, and talk like a leader. You become a leader
when you develop a vision for yourself and for your company, your life, or your area of
responsibility.

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The leader works harder than others in the organization or group. The leader appears to be
more committed, determined, courageous, visionary, and persistent than anyone else. The
leader sets a tone that everyone wants to emulate.

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The first discipline of business success is that you offer a product or service that people want,
need, and will pay for at a price they will accept—a price that is competitive with every other
business that wants the same customer dollar.

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The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer in a cost-effective manner. Profits
are not the purpose of a business. Profits are the result of creating and keeping a sufficient
number of customers who yield a sufficient number of profits after all costs.

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To succeed in business, you need the self-discipline to be proactive rather than reactive. You
need to focus on solutions rather than problems. You need to concentrate on the most important
thing you could possibly be doing every hour of every day rather than getting sidetracked by
low-value or no-value tasks and activities.

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The primary reason for financial problems in life is lack of self-discipline, self-mastery, and self-
control. It is the inability to delay gratification in the short-term. It is the tendency for people to
spend everything they earn and a little more, supplemented by loans or borrowing.

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There is perhaps no area of your life in which self-discipline is more important than in the way
you manage your time. Time management is a core discipline that largely determines the quality
of your life.

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Peter Drucker said, “You cannot manage time; you can only manage yourself.” Time
management is really life management, personal management of yourself rather than of time or
circumstances.

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Time management is the ability to choose the sequence of events. By exerting your self-
discipline with regards to time, you can choose what to do first, second, and not at all. And you
are always free to choose.

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You require tremendous self-discipline to overcome the procrastination and delay that holds
most people back from great success. A native Indian once said “Procrastination is the thief of
dreams.”

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The essence of time management is for you to discipline yourself to set clear priorities and then
stick to those priorities. You must consciously and deliberately select the most valuable and
important thing that you could be doing at any given time, and then discipline yourself to work
solely on that task.

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There is an old saying that “success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you
get.” Self-discipline is essential to happiness. Self-discipline requires both that you determine
clearly what happiness means to you and work towards achieving it.

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All of love, of any kind, is a response to value. We love what we most value, both in ourselves
and others. People can love and live together happily for many years even though they may
support different political parties, as long as values and family is more important to them.

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In a letter to the Corinthians, the apostle Paul says, “Love suffereth long, and is kind; love
envieth not; love avengeth not itself. Love seeketh not his own, love thinketh no evil. Love
rejoices in the truth, love believeth all things. Love never fails.

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How does a child spell “love”? T-I-M-E. Children determine how valuable and important they are
and develop their self-esteem and self-worth by measuring the amount of time that the most
important people in their lives spend with them when they are young.

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Our destinies are determined by our interactions with others and theirs with us. We learn who
we are and know about ourselves only through interacting with other people. It therefore
behooves us to become absolutely excellent at human relations.

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You require high levels of self-discipline if you truly desire to develop all your inner resources
and fulfill your potential. The highest human good or idea has been peace of mind. Your ability
to achieve your own peace of mind is the true measure of your success and the key determinant
of your happiness.