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- First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
- Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471), 1420
- Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.
- Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988), 'Bendigo Shafter'
- For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, London, November 9, 1954
- Self-control is not a problem in the future. It's only a problem NOW when the chocolates is next to us.
- Shlomo Bernartzi, TED Talk: Saving for tomorrow, tomorrow, November 2011
- I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950)
- We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
- By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
- Grenville Kleiser
- He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
- Hesiod (~800 BC), Works and Days
- If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
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