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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
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
Do it Now!
- Napoleon Hill
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
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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
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)
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
Success... A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- 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
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill
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
I'm awash in self-contempt!
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
- W. C. Fields
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This is your day to Laugh at Life.
- 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)
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who joyfully marches in rank and file
has already earned my contempt.
He has been given a large brain by mistake,
since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a self-centered spoiled-rotten brat,
Thank you for nurturing me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving.
I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
- William J. Clinton
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
Self confident independent thinker -
sounds like the makings of a hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford
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
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
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.
To have a friendship with God,
all I really have to do is have
a friendship with my Self.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Solitude is painful when one is young,
but delightful when one is more mature.
- Albert Einstein
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
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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