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• they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things

  Charles Bukowski

  Deep Thought, Important, Frightened

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• The most powerful way to control your focus is through the use of QUESTIONS

  Tony Robbins

  Powerful, Focus, Use

  Twitter post from May 11, 2016

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• True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

  Robert Greene

  Lying, Presence Of Mind, Self

  Source: powerseductionandwar.com

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• The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Funny, Time

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  Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Relationship, Uplifting

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living”, p.1, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.

  Rudolph Valentino

  Funny, Life, Men

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everybody in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, World, Way

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.65, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I can resist everything except temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25

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• The Goddess doesn't enter us from outside; she emerges from deep within. She is not held back by what happened in the past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope.

  Marianne Williamson

  Integrity, Hard Work, Past

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.18, Ballantine Books

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• The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life.

  Witness Lee

  Inspirational, Strength, God

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• I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Anger, Wind, Poetry

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• In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Money, Business, Entrepreneur

  Twitter post from Jan 14, 2017

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• I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mentor

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Collected Shorter Fiction, vol. 1”, p.934, Everyman's Library

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• It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

  Mick Jagger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Letting Go

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

  Keith Ablow

  Self, Sometimes, Produce

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• At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Power, Strenght

  "Measure for Measure".

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• There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.

  Jim Prentice

  Discipline, Might, Tongue

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• The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations.

  Jim Rohn

  Two, Temptation, Possibility

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 21, 2012

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• The least lack of discipline starts to erode our self-esteem.

  Jim Rohn

  Self Esteem, Discipline, Erode

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 13, 2017

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• Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

  Ralph Ellison

  Inspirational, Confidence, Power

  "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, Ch. 6, 1952.

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• And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Time, Giving Up

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• One discipline always leads to another discipline.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Discipline, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 14, 2017

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• A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day fastened a halter, but which now you cannot catch. It is a lion you cage in your study. As the work grows, it gets harder to control; it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room. You enter its room with bravura, holding a chair at the thing and shouting, "Simba!

  Annie Dillard

  Work, Doors, Discipline

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• Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation.

  Roy Baumeister

  Running, Animal, Discipline

  "Why willpower matters – and how to get it" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2012.

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