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- Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.
- Author Unknown
- The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
- Sir W. Temple
- By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
- Jackie Mason (1934 - )
- Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.
- Thaddeus Golas
- It is a very serious duty, perhaps of all duties the most serious, to look into one's own character and conduct, and accurately read one's own heart. It is virtually looking into eternity, and all its vast and solemn realities, which must appear delightful or awful, according as the heart appears to be conformed or not conform to God.
- Emmons
- You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
- Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure"
- To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.
- Smiles
- He who is always his own counselor will often have a fool for his client.
- Hunter
- Who to himself is law, no law doth need.
- Arthur Chapman
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