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- Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.
- Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
- The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
- R. D. Hitchcock
- Above all things, reverence yourself.
- Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
- If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
- Spanish Proverb
- Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
- Christine Bovee
- Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
- Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
- Johann Georg von Zimmermann
- Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
- Unknown, The Ladies Repository, September 1874
- As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), Faust
- If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
- John Atkinson
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