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| Sure I am a religious man who is also passionate about conserving the environment. But I am also a CEO, with all the bad habits and attitudes that are natural to the species. . . . I am still naturally self-interested, overconfident, full of pride, and eager to control a meeting as any CEO in America. Every day, I struggle with my ego. (Tom Chappell, Managing Upside Down) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The first and best victory is to conquer self. (Plato) | [▲] | [▼] |
| You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself. (Jim Whittaker) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A man without decision of character can never be said to belong to himself . . . . He belongs to whatever can make captive of him. (John Foster) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers. If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny. (Dee Hock) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always: this occupation ought to last as long as life. (Queen Christina of Sweden) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. (Benjamin Disraeli) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Let me . . . ; remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God. (Woodrow Wilson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit. (Aristotle) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life. (James Allen) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Nothing is more harmful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army superiority over another. (George Washington) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action. (Vince Lombardi) | [▲] | [▼] |
| There are no short cuts to any place worth going. (Beverly Sills) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else. (Henry Ward Beecher) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. (Mark Twain) | [▲] | [▼] |
| If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us. (William Feather) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. (Lao Tzu) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Never suffer your courage to exert itself in fierceness, your resolution in obstinacy, your wisdom in cunning, nor your patience in sullenness and despair. (Charles Palmer) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath (James 1:19) | [▲] | [▼] |