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We live in a world that offers its greatest rewards to those men and women who exercise high levels of self-discipline. Yet the world is filled to the brim with opportunities to squander time on a wide-ranging variety of trivial pursuits (beginning with mindless TV and working its way down from there).

Would you like to be successful in school, in sports, in business, or in almost any other endeavor you can name? If so, learn to control those natural urges to misbehave, to overindulge, and to goof off. Instead, find interesting work that you will do, set worthy goals that you can achieve, and find like-minded friends who can help you become a better person today than you were yesterday. When you do, you'll discover that discipline is its own reward, but not its only reward.

The Power of Discipline

"Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority does without it."
Balthasar Gracian

"By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character."
Grenville Kleiser

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
Beverly Sills

"Learn to take your work seriously and not yourself seriously."
Clint Eastwood

About Discipline

"Self discipline is an acquired asset."
Duke Ellington

"The only lasting form of discipline is self-discipline."
Dale Brown

"Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.
M. Scott Peck

"Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace."
Mike Ditka

"Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly."
Julie Andrews

And Finally . . .

"You fulfill the promise that lies latent within you by keeping your promises to yourself."
David Harold Fink

"You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things."
George S. Patton

"No steam or river ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is harnessed. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."
Harry Emerson Fosdick

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves: with all of them, self-discipline came first."
Harry S Truman

This page was written and compiled by Criswell Freeman, Psy.D.

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