Becoming a better person

You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.

Jeph Jacques

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Be careful with yourself

Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your two ears.

Laird Hamilton

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Working hard

Recipe for success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

W. A. Ward

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Freedom and control

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyong our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your best self; for that does fall within your control.

Epictetus

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Don’t worry

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

William Ralph

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Nurture your good habits

Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as bad habits.

Robert Puller

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Start your plan

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Freedom of thought

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

William James

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The disciplioned are free

Only the disciplioned are truly free. The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions.

Stephen R. Covey

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Becoming a hero

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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