Discipline:

Success is possible only when you can *master your own emotions, appetites and inclinations*.
People who lack the ability to master their appetite becomes week and dissolute as well as unreliable in other things as well.

Self-discipline can also be defined as *Self-control*. Your ability to control yourself and your actions, control what you say and do, and ensure that your behaviors are consistent with your long term goals and objectives is the mark of superior person.

Discipline has been defined as *Self-denial*. This requires that you deny yourself the easy pleasures, the temptations that lead so many people astray, and instead discipline yourself to do only those things that you know are right for the long term and appropriate for the moment.

Self-discipline requires *delayed gratification*, the ability to put off satisfaction in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term.