No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

There are 999 other success principles that I have found in my reading and experience, but without self-discipline, none of them work. With self-discipline, they all work.

“There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.”
—MARK TWAIN

You must get out of yourself and your own preoccupations in order to get into other people and how they might be thinking and feeling.
Therefore, if you want to have a friend, you must first be a friend. If you want people to like you, you should first like them. If you want people to respect you, you should first respect them. If you want to impress others, you should first be impressed by them. In this way

self-discipline is the key to success, the lack of self-discipline is the major cause of failure

self-discipline is the key to personal greatness.

to do more, to have more, and to be more than they ever have been before.

you can achieve almost any goal you set for yourself if you have the discipline to pay the price, to do what you need to do, and to never give up.

“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself and be lenient to everyone else.”

Another success principle is that “to achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must learn and practice qualities and skills that you have never had before.”

The rule is that “to become someone that you have never been before, you must do something that you have never done before.”