Monday, September 10, 2012

SELF-DISCIPLINE

“The most important single quality of success is self-discipline. Self-discipline is having the ability within yourself, based on your strength of character and willpower, to do what you should do when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.” –Brian Tracy

“It is a paradoxical statement, but it takes incredible personal discipline to play with great freedom.” -Dick Bennett
"Being a professional is doing all the things you love to do on the days you don't feel liking doing them." -Julius Erving

“The only meaningful kind of discipline there is in the world is the discipline we freely and willingly impose on ourselves.” -Jess Lair

“The people who will really accomplish great things in life are those who are willing to discipline their lives, who maintain their health, their vitality, their efficiency through this process of rigorous discipline in what they take into their bodies and what they do in life.” –Bob Richards

“The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.” -Bernard Baruch

“Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.” -Roy L. Smith

"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves." –Dale Carnegie

“Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others, as what he does from day to day to lead himself.” –Thomas J. Watson

“Self discipline is the greatest asset any individual can possess. Without it, we cannot control our own destiny. We have scientists who have conquered space and the oceans but we cannot conquer ourselves.” –Lou Holtz

“If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others — learn to manage and control yourself.” -William H. Boetcker

"What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are, and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline." -H. P. Liddon

“You’ve got to think about ‘big things’ while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.” -Alvin Toffler

“Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action. Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.” –Brian Tracy

"Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.” -Brian Tracy

“The first person you lead is yourself.”-John Maxwell

"Self-discipline is the greatest asset any individual can possess. Without it, we cannot control our own destiny. We have scientists who have conquered space and the oceans but we cannot conquer ourselves." –Lou Holtz

“Procrastination is the fear of success.” -Denis Waitley