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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• We have the freedom to excel or inhibit our potential. You are the grand designer of your thoughts and emotions. At some level or another you are the one who chooses which thoughts to accept and which ones to ignore. That can be a very empower realization.

  Michael Arndt

  Empowering, Realization, Levels

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• Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

  Brad Pitt

  Self, Improvement, Fight Club Book

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• The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Inspirational, Life, Principles

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1853). “Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, historical painter”, p.52

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspirational, Trust, Education

  Isaac Asimov (1975). “Science Past, Science Future”, Doubleday Books

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• The things which hurt, instruct.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hurt, Hard Work, Wrestling

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.120, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

  Aristotle

  Courage, Peace, Bravery

  "Nichomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, Book II, c. 325 BC.

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• A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How they succeeded : life stories of successful men told by themselves". Book by Orison Swett Marden, archive.org. 1901.

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• Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.

  Marion LeRoy Burton

  Character, Law, Suggestions

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• The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mistake, Youth, Folly

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “Journal of a six weeks' tour. Letters from Geneva. Journal at Geneva: ghost stories, Journal: return to England. Letters from Italy”, p.172

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• The never-ending task of self improvement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Success, Self

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• Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Through discipline comes freedom.

  Aristotle

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Freedom

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• No matter what we've done or where we've been, every single one of us can change.

  Russell Simmons

  Change, Optimistic, People Changing

  Twitter post from Aug 09, 2016

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• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

  Epictetus

  Life, Stupid, Silly

  Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• "We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."

  Anais Nin

  Eye, Doe, World

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• They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

  Sivananda

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

  Rollo May

  Freedom, Men, Hands

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.119, W. W. Norton & Company

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