Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

It's very hard to motivate yourself and others with only one goal - particularly if it's complex and you might not get there until years down the road. That's why intermediate goals are so important.

When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up.

Discipline - Success doesn't just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them.

So it's always helped me to have a foundation, an ideal to strive for and goals. It's hard for me to be disciplined and plan things.

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

There are days when I don't feel motivated and I don't want to get up to go to practice. I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I set short-term goals and try to reach those goals. And when I have those days, I think about those goals, and it gets me motivated.

We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

We don't drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.

You meet people who say, "Oh, I'd like to do such-and-such, but I don't have the time." But it always seemed to me like you make the time. And if you have a wife or a job, if you have kids or whatever, you find a way. If you really want to do it, you make the time.

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

There will be many times in your lives--- at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up---when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed.

You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.

Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.