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"The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves."
"I use my understanding of jiu jitsu as a road map to learn other activities. I look for the similarities between the two, and use jiu jitsu as an allegory for whatever my new practice may be. I truly believe once you have learned one thing, you have learned all things because you have learned how to learn."
"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."
"The secret for mastery is concentration, the success of concentration is in elimination. Avoid everything in general and focus one thing in particular. You will be a master!"
"The highest aim was never to master Jiu Jitsu, it was to master myself."
Explore more quotes by George Eliot
"We learn to restrain ourselves as we get older. We keep apart when we have quarrelled, express ourselves in well-bred phrases, and in this way preserve a dignified alienation, showing much firmness on one side, and swallowing much grief on the other. We no longer approximate in our behaviour to the mere impulsiveness of the lower animals, but conduct ourselves in every respect like members of a highly civilised society."
"It seems as you'll never know the rights of it; but that doesn't hinder there being a rights, Master Marner, for all it's dark to you and me.''No,' said Silas, 'no; that doesn't hinder. Since the time the child was sent to me and I've come to love her as myself, I've had light enough to trusten by; and now she says she'll never leave me, I think I shall trusten until I die."
"In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations."
"It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own."
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