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"He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them."
-- Chinese Proverb
"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay
centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."
-- Chuang Tzu
"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you," Sam
Rayburn once said, "unless you know how to follow, too."
"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always
control what goes on inside."
-- Wayne Dyer
"No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys."
-- Doug
Horton
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
-- Mario Andretti (Italian born American Race driver. b.1940)
"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to
them, if they will not apply themselves to me."
-- Michel de Montaigne,
Essays, 1588
"Go ahead and squander your chi. But I guarantee you heaven isn't in
Miss March's pussy.... Heaven is on the other side of that feeling you get
when you're sitting on the couch and you get up and make a triple-decker
sandwich. It's on the other side of that, when you don't make the
sandwich. It's about sacrifice.... It's about giving up the things that
basically keep you from feeling. That's what I believe, anyway. I'm always
asking, "What am I going to give up next?" Because I want to feel."
--Jim
Carrey, from a Michael Fleming interview in the March 2004 issue of
Playboy magazine
"The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way
again." ~Korman's Law
"Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up,
a sound set of values - and witnesses."
-- Franklin P. Jones
"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying
himself a pleasure."
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can
spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all
the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-
control."
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"The things we can't give up control us."
-- Rosie Cash
"Habit is either the best of servants
or the worst of masters."
-- Nathaniel Emmons
"He who controls others may be powerful,
but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
-- Tao Te Ching
"He who reigns within himself, and rules
passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king."
-- John Milton
"Pull the string,
and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at
all."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"You can't always control the
wind, but you can control your sails."
-- Anthony Robbins
"You have no control of what the other guy does. You only have control
over what you do."
-- A. J. Kitt
"I count him braver who overcomes his
desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over
self."
-- Aristotle:
"If you're always in a hurry,
always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance
is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you."
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"Nothing gives a person so much
advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all
circumstances."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"The secret of success is
learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure
use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't,
life controls you."
-- Anthony (Tony) Robbins:
"To handle yourself, use your head; to
handle others, use your heart."
-- Donald Laird
"Ultimately, the only power to which man
should aspire is that which he exercises over himself."
-- Elie Wiesel:
"To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves."
-- Virginia Woolf
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