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Success Is Its Own Reward, Self descipline and character, The Big Payoff,…
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The Big Payoff
The payoff for becoming a person of character, for exerting your willpower and self-discipline to live consistently with the very best that you know, is tremendous
When you choose the higher value over the lower, the more difficult over the easy, the right over the wrong, you feel good about yourself. Your self-esteem increases. You like and respect yourself more.
you can have all the intelligence, talent, and ability in the world, but if people do not trust you, you will never get ahead.
since the people you associate with have a major effect on your attitude and personality, you make or break your entire life with the quality of your character—or the lack thereof.
The great virtues
It is your level of integrity, living in complete truth with yourself and others, that demonstrates more than anything else the quality of your character.
integrity is actually the value that guarantees all the other values. When your level of integrity is higher, you are more honest with yourself and more likely to live consistently with all the other values that you admire and respect.
it takes tremendous self-discipline to become a person of character. It takes considerable willpower to always “do the right thing” in every situation.
The test of character
It is only when you are under pressure—when you are forced to choose one way or another, to either live consistently with a value or to compromise it—that you demonstrate your true character.
You are constantly making choices, one way or the other. Every choice you make is a statement about your true values and priorities.
The only way that you can develop your full character is by exerting your willpower in every situation when you are tempted to do what is easy and expedient rather than what is correct and necessary.