Deepak Mishra

“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.”
― Harry Truman

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile.”
― Plato