A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself.

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A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself.

-- Anonymous

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You need to draw upon your willpower to accomplish the self-assigned task of mastering self-control.

-- Dr Prem Jagyasi

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Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.

-- Anonymous

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We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

-- Anonymous

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Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It’s the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation – do what’s right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It’s central, in fact, to civilization.

-- Anonymous

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Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.

-- Anonymous

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