• If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.2 · 17 votes · 65 reads

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• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.7 · 36 votes · 192 reads

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• It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  4.7 · 63 votes · 144 reads

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• It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 32 votes · 28 reads

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• Let nothing come between you and the light.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.5 · 53 votes · 45 reads

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• Never give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 45 votes · 194 reads

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• No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

  

  William James

  PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.3 · 15 votes · 79 reads

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• No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy, unless you let him.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.1 · 62 votes · 27 reads

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• No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it

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  James Allen

  EssayistAmerican1864 · 19th century

  3.3 · 39 votes · 62 reads

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• Nothing external to you has any power over you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.9 · 49 votes · 33 reads

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• Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  3.4 · 58 votes · 91 reads

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• Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.7 · 44 votes · 47 reads

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• Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.2 · 7 votes · 110 reads

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• Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.2 · 20 votes · 167 reads

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• The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.2 · 48 votes · 73 reads

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• The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.7 · 27 votes · 131 reads

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• The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  5.0 · 5 votes · 186 reads

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• We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 49 votes · 4 reads

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• We fail to see that we can control our own destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.3 · 35 votes · 178 reads

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• What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.6 · 11 votes · 148 reads

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• What man's mind can create, man's character can control.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  5.0 · 52 votes · 147 reads

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• While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.5 · 44 votes · 90 reads

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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

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.7 · 16 votes · 142 reads

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• You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.

  

  Jewish proverb

  Jewish

  3.4 · 5 votes · 127 reads

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• You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  4.2 · 62 votes · 6 reads

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