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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. -
Napoleon Hill
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The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water. He found that captive white-footed mice spent inordinate time and energy just resisting experimental manipulation. If the experimenters turned the lights up, the mouse spent his time turning them down. If the experimenter turned the lights down, the mouse turned them up. The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is a drive to avoid helplessness. -
Martin E P Seligman
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Every man wishes to rule the world. Unfortunately, the world rules every man. -
Jeremy P Johnson
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Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. -
Thomas Jefferson
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The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls. -
Gerald G Jampolsky
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No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys. -
Doug Horton
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What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -
Abraham Lincoln
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No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him. -
Napoleon Hill
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He is great enough that is his own master. -
Joseph Hall
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You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. -
Mahatma Gandhi
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The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind. -
Mahatma Gandhi
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Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all. -
Thomas Fuller
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Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts? -
Raymond Holliwell
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The first and the best victory is to conquer self. -
Plato
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The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you. -
Anthony Robbins
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Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life. -
Anthony Robbins
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Don't let other people tell you what you want. -
Pat Riley
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You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money. -
Jewish Proverb
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