Self-Control
"Sure I am a religious man who is also passionate about conserving the environment. But I am also a CEO, with all the bad habits and attitudes that are natural to the species. . . . I am still naturally self-interested, overconfident, full of pride, and eager to control a meeting as any CEO in America. Every day, I struggle with my ego."
By : Tom Chappell (Managing Upside Down)
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"Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways."
By : H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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"The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own."
By : Eric Hoffer
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"The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person."
By : Norman Vincent Peale
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"The first and best victory is to conquer self."
By : Plato
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"The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition."
By : Martin H. Fischer
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"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
By : Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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"The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again."
By : Korman's Law
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"There are no short cuts to any place worth going."
By : Beverly Sills
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"There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable."
By : Mark Twain
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"There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object."
By : Charlotte Dacre, The Passions, 1811
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"This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for the boardroom."
By : John Viney
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"Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address."
By : Lane Olinghouse
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"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect."
By : Joan Didion
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"We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit."
By : Aristotle
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