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| Mest makt har den som har makt över sig själv. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Människan kan inte leva utan självbehärskning. | Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) |
| Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made | Jacques Barzun (1907-) |
| You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. | Brian Tracy |
| Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason | Marya Mannes (1904-1990) |
| Man cannot live without self-control | Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) |
| We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation. | Jane Fonda (1937-) |
| I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it | Mae West (1892-1980) |
| One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law (Galatians 5:22) | Bible |
| My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. | Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) |
| The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. | Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) |
| I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is. | B. F. Skinner (1904-1990) |
| I am lord of myself, accountable to none | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. | Billie Jean King (1943-) |
| It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. | Epicurus |
| Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested. | Tom Kite |
| Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Ill blows the wind that profits nobody | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |