"The major lesson Tiggers need to learn is that if they don't control their impulses, their impulses will control them. No matter how much they do, Tiggers are never satisfied because they don't know the feeling of accomplishment that eventually comes when one persistently applies one's will to the attaining of non-immediately-reachable goals."

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Source : Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

Benjamin Hoff

#Accomplishment Quotes #Goal Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“To be the highest-paid running back ever is quite an honor.”
“Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotismat solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation.”
“Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.”
“Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.”

Source : "Orphic Sayings: XXVIII. Prudence". "The Dial", www.alcott.net. July 1840.
“Significance is sweet ...”
“You own a piece of me," he murmurs as he holds me afterward. "Good," I tell him. "And just so you knowâ€¦ I'm never giving it back.”
“I don't think the summer is short. I would rather play hockey than work out in the gym. It would be tougher if summer was longer. You have your two or three weeks to take off. You have plenty of time to go back and see family and friends. I don't want summer to be any longer.”
“Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom as the capacity to make judgments that when looked back upon will seem to have been wise.”

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