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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
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
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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Do it Now!
- Napoleon Hill
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill
Success... A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- 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
Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children
of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- 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
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- 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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
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
You are a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
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.
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
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
You are today where your thoughts have brought.
- James Allen
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking
Believe in yourself, and trust your own wisdom
rather than being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I'm trusting and being myself...
everything in my life reflects this
by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon
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