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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won were over themselves... Self-discipline with all of them came first.

You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Accept the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises, of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation.

To move the world, we must first move ourselves.

Conqueror the self and you will conquer the opponent.

If you want to be strong, conquer yourself.

The person who is his own master cannot tolerate another boss. It's better to be without a book than to believe a book entirely. When economy goes south, people get political.

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failings than to point out those of another.

I have come to discover through earnest personal experience and dedicated learning that ultimately the greatest help is self-help; that there is no other help but self-help -- doing one's best, dedicating oneself wholeheartedly to a given task, which happens to have no end but is an on-going process.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.