self-control Quotes

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.