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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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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children
of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
Success... A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Do it Now!
- Napoleon Hill
Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- 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
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- 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
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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)
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all, 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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
You are a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
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
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
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
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
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
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
Forgiveness is the cleansing fire
that burns away old regrets and resentments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Forgive those who have injured you -
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy
until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Believe in yourself,
in your vision for your future
and in your ability to take a small step
each day toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
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