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A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it. — Seneca the Younger
How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself? — Seneca the Younger
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable… — Seneca the Younger
Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us. — Seneca the Younger
To be everywhere is to be nowhere. — Seneca the Younger
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which… — Seneca the Younger
You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good. — Seneca the Younger
Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of… — Og Mandino
"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead" — Ayn Rand
He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Create each day anew. — Morihei Ueshiba
In your training, do not be in a hurry, for it takes a minimum of ten years to master the basics and advance to the… — Morihei Ueshiba
From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift. — Margaret Mead
Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful. — Milton H. Erickson
The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a… — Walter Russell
Down deep in his heart he knew that we all have the same promise of the unlimited help of the Universal Intelligence that guides all… — Walter Russell
What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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