Behind all excellence, there is ascetic self-discipline.

A person with lofty ambition in his chest is often a very self-disciplined person.

During the negotiations in Chongqing, Chiang Kai-shek once said to his secretary Chen Bulei: Mao Zedong should not be taken lightly. He was addicted to smoking, but after he knew I didn't smoke, he never smoked a cigarette while he was talking to me. His determination and spirit should not be underestimated.

A man of self-discipline is both terrible and honorable. If you are a partner, you should learn to discipline yourself from him; if you are an opponent, you should be psychologically prepared.

In the past, I always felt that life was too short and that we should have fun in time. When you get drunk today, you don't have an affair with a teenager. Until later, I gradually found that every act of self-discipline will bring you more pain. Don't be slaves to desires. Self-discipline can make us live a higher life.

The essence of freedom is not to indulge oneself, not to do everything, but to be comfortable after self-discipline.

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Why should people exercise self-discipline?

Most of the time, we only see the excellent appearance of others, but often ignore their almost masochistic efforts.

A person who is self-disciplined to the bone looks mostly boring.

When others go out to have fun, they sit there reading alone; while others are enjoying good food, they sweat like rain in the gym; on weekends, many people sleep lazily until noon, and he still gets up early, runs, reads and works without moving.

Such people not only look boring, but even feel masochistic, living a life that is not free and free at all.

But the truth is that people who are self-disciplined are much freer than those who are not.

If you always do whatever you want, pay attention to having fun in time, do not know how to work hard, others play you also play, others try you still play, still indulge yourself.

So you, who are so undisciplined, now seem to be free, but you will find that the more you live, the less freedom you have, and you have no choice of capital.

Kant said that the so-called freedom is not arbitrary, but self-control.

The more self-discipline you are, the more you have the right to speak, both physically and in life.

I can't see it for a day or two, or maybe not for a month or two, but for a year or two, or even a decade or two, people who are self-disciplined and those who are not self-disciplined will eventually take a completely different path.

Pay and return is proportional, quantitative change is enough to bring about qualitative change.

This is why a person should exercise self-discipline, which has nothing to do with dreams, that is, simply for himself to be truly free in the future, a little more free in body and life.

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The more disciplined people are, the more they know what they really want, so they don't waste their time and energy on meaningless things, but actually use their fragmented time to grow themselves.

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All the best

There is ascetic self-discipline behind them.

There are many people who say they want self-discipline, but few people insist on self-discipline, just like climbing a steep mountain. The closer to the top of the mountain, the fewer people can grit their teeth and insist on moving forward.

Good persistence is a kind of self-discipline in itself.

I still remember that last year, a 96-year-old grandfather named Shen Hua became popular on the Internet. After 26 years of fitness, he was physically strong, unlike a nearly 100-year-old man. Everyone called him Hua Zai and Uncle Hua.

Shen Lao's daily schedule is very regular. He never goes to bed at ten o'clock in the evening, gets up at more than four o'clock in the morning to exercise, and reports to the gym every afternoon.

Many of his peers are gone, Shen said. Now fitness and exercise are my best friends.

When Shen Hua, who is in his seventies, first entered the gym, he always encountered a lot of disdain. many people thought that he would not last long once he was old, but the reality is that many young people are just passers-by in the gym. Shen Hua has become a well-known muscle grandfather in 20 years.

Haruki Murakami, a Japanese writer, has been writing for nearly 40 years since he was 30 years old, and has created a large number of classic and productive works.

Haruki Murakami has a habit of writing. He only writes 4000 words a day, 400 words a page, and then stops when he writes 10 pages a day.

In addition, he sets aside an hour to run every day, and it is this high degree of self-discipline that gives him the energy to continue to produce excellent work.

Most of the time, it is not excellence that leads to self-discipline, but self-discipline that makes you excellent. And those self-disciplined people, often even God does not have the heart to disappoint them.

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The more self-discipline, the better.

There is a saying in "Cognitive Breakthrough" that all laziness, indulgence and lack of self-control are rooted in the limitation of cognitive ability.

The more self-discipline, the stronger cognitive ability, the gap between people is gradually opened up in this way.

There are unlimited possibilities hidden in a person's self-discipline, and the degree of your self-discipline determines the height of your life.

Everyone has the right to choose how to live. Some people think that life is short and there is no problem with having fun in time, but I want to tell you that a life of self-discipline is actually better, because when you know where you want to go and go all out, the whole world will make way for you.

The people who can really reach the top and look into the distance will always be those who have no distractions and insist on moving forward.

May we really become self-disciplined ourselves, live the way we like, and live the life we want.

There are no shortcuts in life, but every step you take counts.

The more diligent, the harder; the more self-discipline, the better.