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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough
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Mario Andretti (1940 - )
Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882), We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
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Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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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.
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R. D. Hitchcock
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784), Supplement to Bougainville's 'Voyage,' 1796
Self-control is not a problem in the future. It's only a problem NOW when the chocolates is next to us.
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Shlomo Bernartzi, TED Talk: Saving for tomorrow, tomorrow, November 2011
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By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
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Grenville Kleiser
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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
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Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.
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Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
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