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
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
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)
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
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm awash in self-contempt!
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
- W. C. Fields
This is your day to Laugh at Life.
- 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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- 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
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
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving.
I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
- William J. Clinton
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
I am a self-centered spoiled-rotten brat,
Thank you for nurturing me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Self confident independent thinker -
sounds like the makings of a hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To have a friendship with God,
all I really have to do is have
a friendship with my Self.
- Neale Donald Walsch
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
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
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
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
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
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.
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- 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
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Solitude is painful when one is young,
but delightful when one is more mature.
- Albert Einstein
Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Small people never learn to be indifferent;
they either envy or pity.
- Anonymous
I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
He who lives in harmony with himself
lives in harmony with the universe.
- Marcus Aurelius
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
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
We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I was thinking that I might fly today.
Just to disprove all the things you say...
please be careful with me, I'm sensitive,
and I'd like to stay that way.
- Jewel
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Don't look for approval from anyone other than yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
- Danny Kaye
You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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