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“Principles of choice, or “personal rules,” represent self-enforcing contracts with your future motivational states; such contracts depend on your seeing each current choice as a precedent that predicts how you’re apt to choose among similar options in the future. Short-range interests evade personal rules by proposing exceptions that might keep the present case from setting a precedent. The will is a recursive process that bets the expected value of your future self-control against each of your successive temptations.”

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Book:Breakdown of Will
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“Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.”

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Book:Mastery Through Accomplishment
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“The actuality that the heart does not want to feel, doesn't negate the certitude that it once felt and will still feel.”

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Book:The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
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“मौन धारण गर। व्यर्थ बकवास नगर। आत्म प्रशंसाको त्याग गर। शान्ति नै महान् पुरुषहरूको उत्तम लक्षण हो। प्रत्येक कार्य शान्तिपूर्वक गर। आफ्ना इच्छाहरूलाई आफ्नो अधिन गर। कहिल्यै उत्तेजित नहोउ, यसबाट विचार शक्ति निर्बल र मन्द हुन जान्छ। जो शान्त, एकाग्र चित्तले प्रतिदिनका कार्यहरूलाई गर्दछ, त्यसलाई अल्पकालमा र अल्प परिश्रमबाट गर्न सकिन्छ र उसको सारा दिन आनन्दमा व्यतित हुन्छ। स-साना कुरामा उत्तेजित हुनाले मनको शान्ति भङ्ग भएर शरीरलाई बडो हानि पुग्छ र अल्प आयुमा मृत्यु हुन जान्छ।”

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Book:विचार विज्ञान [Bichar Bigyan]
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“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.”

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Book:The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living
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“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin
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“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”

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Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
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“I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want to do. Once this becomes a habit, discipline becomes the choice of achieving what I really want by doing the very things I now want to do! I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a joy--but only after we have worked hard to practice it.”

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Author:John C. Maxwell
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“Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at school and work, lack of savings, failure to exercise - are in some degree a failure of self-control.”

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Author:Roy Baumeister
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“The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are.”

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Book:The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
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“To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and expecting so much from it, would not the tide ebb as strongly as it was flowing? It is a rash game this setting our hearts on any future beyond what we have our own selves control over. Things do not walk as we settle with ourselves they ought to walk, and to hope is almost the correlative of to be disappointed.”

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Book:The Nemesis of Faith
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