self-control Quotes

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.