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Without self-discipline, you have no reason to expect to be successful. The key to achieving what you want out of life lies in establishing meaningful goals. You must continue to feed your minds with thoughts and ideas that are consistent with your goals. Next, you must take action and persist with self-discipline. The one thing we know for certain is that Napoleon Hill’s system works. You can have high goals, develop good plans, and have a pleasing personality and many other desirable qualities. But to be truly successful, you must have self-discipline. Without self-discipline, you will be among the majority who will look over their lives and think about “what could have been.”

Just what are the factors that define what it takes to be a success? If you ask different people, you will receive many different answers. Some will suggest being highly educated; others will think it takes hard work. Others will remember President Calvin Coolidge’s statement on persistence. Ralph Waldo Emerson quote that “nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

W. Clement Stone’s favorite principle of success was Positive Mental Attitude. His own background provided few clues that one day he would become so wealthy that he could give away several hundred million dollars to charitable causes before he died at the age of one hundred...

Once you have developed your major purpose in life, the passion it creates will lead you to achieve greater self-discipline, self-reliance, and enthusiasm. Once you begin to work on your plans, you will see personal initiative begin to assist you and recognize that those who have a purpose, a plan, and personal initiative are the true success stories...

One evening before a meeting, I went to a local restaurant and was waited on by a very nice waitress named Brooke. I told her that she would go places because of her outstanding personality. I also told her that at the office of the Napoleon Hill Foundation at the University of Virginia-Wise, a part-time employee, also named Brooke, had a good personality, and I bet they both were going places...

Most successful people have an overwhelming desire to give back to help others. Don’t be afraid to seek help from others, especially in areas where you lack expertise and you know others who have the particular knowledge that you lack. We cannot compel others to always go the extra mile, but there is no reason that each of us cannot apply the going the...

We each need to do something each day that moves us worthily in the direction of our definite plan of action. More than just dreaming is necessary if we are to succeed in the objects and ambitions of our life. We achieve our best results in every department of life only when we thoughtfully plan and earnestly work in the proper directions...

In one successful Mastermind that I was involved with in changing our local college name from Clinch Valley College to the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, I saw how many of the principles of success interlocked with this principle. First, we who wanted a name change had a burning desire to achieve this goal...

To begin your journey, you must begin with the right ideas that can grow the desire until it becomes a burning desire. There are both great destinies and obstacles in your future, but you were born with the powers and capabilities that will let you improve your situation and be a success. You have the gifts that will let you make the right choices and take action...