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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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Do it Now!
- Napoleon Hill
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
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No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- 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
Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children
of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- 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
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
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What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
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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)
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You are a magnificent gift to the world.
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To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
We are what we pretend to be,
so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller
Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
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Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole
for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast
and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat -
dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are today where your thoughts have brought.
- James Allen
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
- Walt Whitman
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
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Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
I rest in the light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
You go against yourself when you
judge or blame yourself for anything
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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