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Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.
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Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.
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Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful - if strenuously led - as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.
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Mr. Obama is particularly well positioned to challenge Hollywood because of his special relationship with the media world's elites. They might be more likely to heed criticism coming from Mr. Obama than from any other president or member of Congress.
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Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
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Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
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Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
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Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy.
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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
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No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
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