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Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you
to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill
Do it Now!
- Napoleon Hill
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill
The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
Success... A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children
of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
- Danny Kaye
Don't look for approval from anyone other than yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who lives in harmony with himself
lives in harmony with the universe.
- Marcus Aurelius
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself,
than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
- Henry David Thoreau
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was thinking that I might fly today.
Just to disprove all the things you say...
please be careful with me, I'm sensitive,
and I'd like to stay that way.
- Jewel
Small people never learn to be indifferent;
they either envy or pity.
- Anonymous
Solitude is painful when one is young,
but delightful when one is more mature.
- Albert Einstein
At the Core of Our Suffering
are those Self-Imposed Limitations (Assumptions)
of which We are Completely Unaware.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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