Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.
If it isn't your job to do it, perhaps it is your opportunity
Persons, especially salaried people who schedule their spare time, to provide for home study (or attend specialized short courses, seminars or training) seldom remain at the bottom very long. Their action opens the way for the upward climb, removes many obstacles from their path, and gains the friendly interest of those who have the power to put them in the way of opportunity
Persistence is nothing more than Concentrated Effort mixed with Determination and Faith.
If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work
Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies & spreads his thoughts over so many subjects & in so many different directions that they lead not to power, but to indecision & weakness.
If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions.
You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out.
To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.
Success is good at any age, but the sooner you find it, the longer you will enjoy it.
Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.
You can't change where you started, but you can change the direction you are going. It's not what you are going to do, but it's what you are doing now that counts.
No matter where you are now, whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve.
Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the 'time to be right' to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created.
Whatever you think today becomes what you are tomorrow.
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.
A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.
Control your own mind, and you may never be controlled by the mind of another.
Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.
Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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