Self-Discipline: How to Develop Spartan Discipline, Unbreakable Mental Toughness, and Relentless Willpower (Spartan Self-Control, Self-Confidence, and Self-Awareness)

Victory or death. They would either come home victorious or die trying.

Not how many, but where.

Growth, improvement, and long-term happiness are found outside of one’s comfort zone.

They understood that short-term pain leads to long-term gain—and glory.

“The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.”

The key to their excellence was that they did one thing and did it terribly, terribly well.

The highly counterintuitive secret to god-like self-discipline is to take things to the absolute extreme

There are two types of wants in this world. There are the wants of the body and the wants of the mind.

The wants of the body are the things that—in the heat of the moment—we feel we want. The wants of the mind, on the other hand, are the things we truly want

“Everyone must choose one of the two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.”

— Jim Rohn

So transmute powerful emotions into positive, powerful action. Turn your nervousness into excitement. Turn your sexual energies into an intense workout or creative effort.